Apologies, things were a bit hectic in order to meet the embargo. The conclusion is done but some aspects are still incomplete. I should be finished within the next hour.
Except it did happen even when Anand was around. In a few GPU reviews by Ryan Smith and when Brian Klug wrote the smartphone reviews, they did on occasion go up incomplete when there was not enough time between when they got the products to review and the embargo date. They have always been finished within 24 hours of publication though.
A joke you say? Don't quit your day job just yet to become a comedian because I don't see any joke here as I failed to get the humor and I'm not laughing either. Next time, put a smiley or something so we can decipher your cryptic intentions: ;)
No, they used movie mode. I didn't catch if they went there from where they were.
Really, though, a larger gamut is a strength. All we need is for OEMs to create profiles so that we don't have the weird problems we had. They can create an sRGB profile, and an AdobeRGB profile, too. Then, when Android finally supports proper colour systems, they'll be able to introduce that immediately.
Waterproof phones have never proven a big hit with consumers. The Kyocera Hydro and Galaxy S5 have a lot of inconvenient plugs and gaskets, with harder to press buttons. Then there is the added weight of the Active. There is always an Achilles heel to mil spec implementation.
But it's good consumers have the option of waterproof devices, I just don't think the Note 4 being waterproof would be a compelling feature. I mean, if you drop the thing in the urinal its so big chances are the toilet cake would prop it up...and it's probably not on every sailors list of devices to have something so big.
There's also the fact that it's not very important to most people, if you'll be by water on a boat or something a $10 bag/case will do. Or hell, even a ziplock bag really. If it's a major concern for you then you're probably willing to spend the $100 on micro-sealing.
I see waterproof feature it more like investment into protecting the investment rather than a feature. I would pay $100 on micro-sealing - just to be sure: if I am walking on the rain (following GPS), or phone accidentally falls in a puddle, or my kid accidentally drops it in the bath that it would survive. And protection bags are ugly, can't go on meeting with that, can't put on/off all the time. Additional frames to protect the screen or side sealing do reduce GPS signal; so no after market solutions.
I think the lack of water resistance is actually the result of the stylus slot. I could be wrong, but it seems somewhat logical that waterproofing such design would be difficult
I don't think so, unless the plastic of the stylus slot couldn't be impermeable (something to do with thickness?). It uses Wacom Penabled technology, so it should be possible (the Fujitsu Q584 has some water resistance with such a AD stylus).
I think the lack of water resistance is actually the result of the stylus slot. I could be wrong, but it seems somewhat logical that waterproofing such design would be difficult
Disappointing really, not much wow factor here even if the materials have improved it just looks like a large Galaxy 5 with even less items of interest. Guess I will stay with the iPhone 6 plus.
If you can't see or understand the difference between a Galaxy Note 4 and a Galaxy S5, I really don#t see what you're doing commenting technology. Cementing the prejudice that iPhone buyers have no clue about technology and should always be considered the last people to ask for advice from?
Little bit of trolling there? Since the iPhone 6 plus has only been out a couple of weeks I find it hard to believe that switching phones is actually an option. Unless you are fabulously wealthy then what a surprise...you aren't going to dump your brand new phone for something else.
It _is_ ugly, actually. Plenty of better looking Android devices out there. I don’t know why tech writers need to even add stuff like "design massively improved", when it’s actually not _massively_ improved.
And, no, I don’t think the iPhone 6 is massively improved design-wise (though it looks better from the front than anything Samsung offers), either.
And design is not subjective and open to interpretation. If it was, people wouldn’t be able to agree on a "best design", ever, because the type of looks people liked would be evenly divided among all kinds of designs. And there would be no rules on how to make things look good, either. Just because companies like Samsung don’t understand them it doesn’t mean that those don’t exist.
You're shooting yourself in the foot if you're arguing that design is not subjective, as Samsung sell 300 million smartphones every year, all of them tends to follow the design language of their current flagship device. So....?
Using the USB 3 connector wouldn't allow you to make phone calls, among other problems. They had to get rid of it. I can't understand why testing didn't show that.
I didn't wait for 256gb micro SD, using a full size 256gb SD in my Note 3 (modified wooden case and ribbon adapter). So, if you must have that right now you can. I'm mulling over whether to get the 512gb SD card and stay with my Note 3 until my contact renews and then grab a Note 4 or something else...
The initial lock is 50s only if you deliberately clear assistance data (or it expires after a few days of non-use) with airplane mode on. Otherwise it should be less than 10-15 seconds.
I'm sure I'm being ignorant here, but how do I 'access' that satellite display? 'Best option....the one built into Qualcomm's own modem...' Is that an option already 'built in' or an app downloaded from the Play Store? I owned the original Note and couldn't get out of it quick ebough! Contract expired, I went in to look for my next dedicated business line (the original Note's responsibilities;)) --- & about thirty seconds with the Note 3 I caved. Bought it and I've enjoyed it daily without issue for almost 14 months now. It's paid off in two, and this review leaves me curious. Especially the display & it's 'relative' efficiency maintained in essentially the same package and by doubling it's resolution. Something to be said for these sharper, HiDPI displays ...especially for those of us with 'aging eyes' ;) --- I couldn't be happier with this resolution push, and the good riddance to 3D!
Sorry, TL/DR What is he using as an app for that screenshot in the GPS lock tool? Thanks
Curious to see the difference in battery life between 2.4Ghz Wireless N and Wireless AC, I've noticed a significant increase with my Nexus 5, and of course it was said the rest of the tests will be up later so that's cool.
Then they should have bought it . How hard it is to get an international variant of a device. There are websites which ship you these things. I don't expect such things from other websites, but Exynos 5433 marks a new Chapter in SOC's for Android phones for being the first high end A57+A53 CPU and i was expecting Anandtech to review hat SOC given their expertise in such things .
Anandtech is still a U.S.-oriented site. And the 805 will be sold in more markets. There is plenty of data out there on the Exynos' performance. It isn't that good, which is why Samsung used the 805 in its most lucrative markets such as the US, EU, and Japan.
I disagree with the performance part, Some benchmarks show that the exynos 5433 surpasses the 805. The only reason 805 is used, (as far as I know) is the modem chips.
Will you guys be getting the international version of this as well? Would love to see performance of A57/A53 compared to the 805. Would also love to see comparison of ARMv7 A57/A53 to (when it comes out) ARMv8 enabled A57/A53 to see benefits of new instruction sets and 64 bit
@JoshHo: You do know that the NAND performance measurements and comparisons between different OS and benchmark programs is not accurate, right? I own a Nexus 5 which, with Android L preview, achieves more than double the performance figures than with Kitkat. That same has been observed with other Android L devices: http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-7-2013/gener...
I'm saying this because of the misleading graphs you provide, showing the iphones miles ahead of Kitkat android devices. Well, they are NOT. They are just on a different OS / benchmark. Iphones should be removed from the graph ASAP, or include some Android L preview measurements as well. Otherwise, the NAND performance graphs are highly misleading.
I don't have any particular reason to suspect Androbench pre-Android L, but I would expect some sort of compatibility issue with Androbench and Android L dev preview.
I would expect a great amount of optimizations in the fs layer / kernel i/o scheduler and caching departments, together with newer controller device drivers of Android L. To make things simple: What if the compatibility issue of Androbench is with Kitkat and only with Android L will the true performance numbers show?
LOL What are you talking about? The Galaxy Note 4 is a package of hardware and software. Your Nexus 5 has Android L Preview on it; The Galaxy Note 4 does not. It gets the benchmark rating that it gets, and the iPhone gets the rating that it gets.
Isn't that the whole point of using Android? I mean, it's kind of a trainwreck when OEM skins and carrier bloatware gets involved. If it wasn't for custom OS flashing I would probably be using a Jolla phone or hanging onto the old Nokia N9. Or just using an iPhone. I mean, if I can't tweak and customize, then my problem with iOS largely disappears.
That literally is the first thing I do, but I'm not average. However, do average consumers read anandtech? I think not, so there is some relevance to arguing against uhuznaa's statement since a fair amount of people won't be using the stock ROM at all.
This review is good, but lacks discussion (or mention, for that matter) about Gear VR, a very significant first-step development in the world of mobile phones. If nothing else, VR may have an effect on the decisions surrounding critical hardware found in future mobiles.
Me too! And while I'm looking forward to it, I'm confident that it is a bold and important step for the industry. It potentially adds an alternative to large-screen TVs that have become standard, and open up new ways of sharing information. More importantly, the mobile phone is so ubiquitous that this lowers the cost of VR significantly, and puts it into more hands.
Such a thing deserves serious mention in a review of this device as its a serious development.
With a contrast ratio of nearly 1,000,000:1 it has a dynamic range in the region of 1000 times better than any LCD display.
That gigantic difference means that those miniscule differences in the specs sites like Anandtech always loves to focus on are pretty much irrelevant. I think it was GSM arena who made an visual comparison of outdoor readability on all major brands a few months ago, and even though the GS5 had around half the brightness of the "best" competitors, the GS5 was a lot more readable outdoors.
The adaptive brightness increased the outdoor brightness of something like 100 nits on older Samsung devices, I guess this is in the same region.
You can't ignore maximum brightness. OLED screens have a high contrast ratio because their black levels are very deep, which offsets the lower brightness to still give it a high ratio. But maximum brightness still matters for visibility outside.
You can however dismiss its importance. If the dynamic range is below the thousands on one tech and maybe above the millions on the other tech, other numbers suddenly become really, really irrelevant.
I played around with an iPhone 6 Plus and the Note 4 at Best Buy the other day. I thought there was a big difference in the display with the Note 4 being much better. It is interesting to see a review like this say there are basically equal. It goes to show that you should really look at them in person and form your own opinion. These numbers don't mean anything to an average person.
That's very misleading. While the blacks are just a small bit better than the best LCD displays, the whites are half as bright. In normal lighting, the much dimmer AMOLED displays will look fine, but outside, in direct sunlight, they will be washed out.
The GS5 is definitely not more readable outside. So just go ahead and ignore reality. Brightness is directly responsible for readability outside. It's not magic.
It's not just brightness. I don't know what Samsung have done here, but Nokia CBD (proper CBD) increased sunlight readability without just increasing screen brightness.
As noted in the review, the Note 4 doesn't use PDAF for continuous AF so that number isn't representative of the total "AF speed" as there's significant lag between recognizing that a scene is out of focus and the start of the focus run.
Fully agree, the Apple A-series are amazing. Half the frequency, half the core count, one third the memory and still the fastest SOC more often than not while still being very frugal.
CPU benchmarks are not designed to test the benefit of having more RAM. One could design a benchmark using 2GB RAM. The iPhone would be slower than a Galaxy S3 because it would be swapping (or even failing). Javascript benchmarks test the browser more than the CPU. That's why the iPhone 5s still performs well in these benchmarks even tough it has a very slow CPU with no ARMv8.
How many phone apps really use more than 1gb right now? The iPad Air 2 will have 2 GB and my guess is that the iPhone 6s will too. But for now 1GB is fine.
You're entirely TOO WRONG! Lol, what crap. I've got a Note 3, specifically for my business. The 5s as my personal, daily driver. I love em both for different reasons. Especially with what we do, the stylus on the Note for when we're doing it ...& collecting the pay for it with our clients using the SPen to sign their credit card receipt. Other than that...nope. Nothing is 'better' on the S3, 4, 5 or Note 3 than the iPhone 5s. Display preferences aside, as an owner of both, for over a year can attest to their performance. It's ridicukius realily. My Note, again being a business line doesn't have a whole lot of apps other than productivity, a couple of 'creative' types and some excellent games to kill time on sites. Any and EVERY app in 'parity' (available on both platforms) overwhelmingly plays more fluently on the iPhone. Productivity, cloud access and any type of 'creative' apps are abound, and they're excellent ...well optimized to a single, specific type ID hardware It's amazing to me, in a stock cold boot of a Note 3 (I've reset a couple times), it's ALREADY using 19-2.1GB of RAM! The OEM and carrier crap is a silly joke Apps come to iOS first. Are optimized for a single platform (& able to be played for years, fluently and with updates!). Crazy, a ⅓ the RAM, twice the processors at twice the clock speed is definitely the more 'usable' system. Customizing aside, I enjoy my home screen but for seconds ...it's the apps, their design UI and ability to 'run with reliability'. That's where iOS Smokes iOS. Secondarily, it's for a vertical & horizontal system, ala OS X. Android has Chrome The SPIII is a nice piece. If Windows gets ohine's figures out, Samsung's screwed. Oh, sorry. They already are! Then there's the tablets. Windows, again ..the SPIII is special The Air2, incredible. There's NOT a comparable tablet running Android. Nor will Chromebooks become anything other than a home appliance. Sorry. You certainty don't understand RAM.
Sorry. Something was lost in translation there;) I'm not going to go tbrough the dozen+ grammatical and punctuation errors, but my point was to compare iOS to Android with their siblings ...the Chromebook and OS X. Windows has the same if they're able to finally figure phones out! The SPIII is a HELLUVA design and enough difference between itself and the iPad (including the price, you're looking more like comparing a nice 13" rMBP w/Haswell ans Iris Pro graphics;)) Vertical and horizontal support. iOS and OS X with continuity and handoff being another extension of Airdrop is absolutely incredible! The new near 15million pixel 5K iMac is a Grand Slam iPad Air 2, it's A8X, a 2 and a ½ gen old 64 bit design---2GB of RAM, & a buck 28 built in with a half million 'optomized' tablet apps for everything from photo and video manipulation with Adobe, MS, & OS X integrated and aggregated alls to music creation, mixing and mastering ...magazines that are mind blowing, killer browser choices and unbelievably powerful video editing suites, drawing and sketching programs...old 'Chilton' fix 'em up guides or ForeFlight to file your F/P n tell ya how much gas you should pump in, while it considers diversions and real time weather and traffic. TCAS ans ADSB ...Jep charts, plates and updates in 'now' time, THAT'S a 'Tool!' Farting around with ROMS is like rewiring your microwave. Why? It's to cook, melt, boil, or pop your F'ung popcorn!
Displaymate: "When Automatic Brightness is turned On, the Galaxy Note 4 reaches an impressive 750 cd/m2 in High Ambient Light, where high Brightness is really needed – it is the brightest mobile display that we have ever tested"
It is an out-of-space claim that there can be a variability in production of a 70% level...
I just bought a note 3, and I'm more than happy with it with a zerolemon 10000mah battery. This doesn't really offer much more really, more of an slight upgrade.
I'd be interested to see why they didn't up the battery a little more considering they made the chassis bigger...
I agree on some points. When he describes in one sentence how the UI is "surprisingly functional", it implies some degree of expectation that the UI was broken before he even reviewed it. In the next sentence, he then describes the much more functional Iphone 6 software stack.
I have not used either so the statement maybe be completely factual, but I have to take it with a grain of salt when there is obvious bias in the previous statement.
Doesn't he say the Note 4 software is more functional, but the iPhone 6 Plus software is more polished? I would have to agree with that having used both phones.
All other sites are complaining about the lack of polish for the iPhone 6 plus, that nothing is optimised for the large display. In contrast, everything is optimised for the large display on the Note 4. So, yeah, I agree with the OP. Anandtech has been suffering from acute RDF for several years.
Yep! I spent many years there getting my BS and MS in Materials Science (1988 - 1994). The building on the right didn't exist when I was there. I think that's Sproul Hall in the distance.
Different philosophy. Instead of using four weak cores, they use two strong ones. Comlanies using eight cores generally are using four BIG, and four LITTLE. All of those cores are weaker yet. There's just so much you can do with similarly sized chips.
Yep, different approach to low power design. Apple use just two underclocked but very beefed up, large cores, while Qualcomm uses more small, simple, but high clocked cores. Just think about the fact that Snapdragon 805 probably doesn't draw more power than the A8, even while being clocked twice higher and built on a larger node.
If you doubt that, the Galaxy Note 4 itself is your proof - longer battery endurance than iPhone 6+(according to every other review) despite of having a modestly larger battery, supposedly less efficient OS, triple the RAM, bigger screen and larger resolution panel.
There's probably no way it could achieve that if snapdragon 805 was any less efficient than A8
One more thing.. the CPU benchmarks posted here are nothing but a single threaded Web scripts. Which means, almost entirely dependant on software optimization and single core performance.
If you want a good raw performance indication of the CPU setup itself, look up Geekbench. There the Snapdragon 805 easily beats the A8 in overall score. The A8 beats it even more easily in the single core part though.
Not many apps are designed for multicore support. Also, Apple chips run at top speed for longer. It's like comparing Carl Lewis to Paula Radcliffe. Lewis can run faster for short bursts but Radcliffe has more endurance and is still running at the top of her game after 26.2 miles.
Not necessarily. The biggest drain on the battery is the screen. OLED is more efficient than LCD. So perhaps the Qualcomm CPU is less efficient but Samsung makes it up in the display. Now that Samsung seems to have solved the saturation issue perhaps the real story is that if Apple and Samsung were still partners instead of frenemies the battery life on the latest iPhones would be absolutely amazing instead of just good considering the smaller batteries they use.
Because you were lied to by a 100 billion dollar marketing machine. more megapixels is not better (if you don't account for pixel size etc.). more RAM is not better (if you don't account for fast memory compression techniques). more clock speed is not better (if you don't account for electromigration and current leakage, etc. in the transistors).
Samsung amoled display doesn't appear as sharp as other LCD display. It's because of their PenTile subpixel layout. Their PentTile subpixel layout is lower than a conventional RGB stripe, so true subpixel density increases around 20%. - So basically Samsung's QHD display only 20% sharper than FHD display which has RGB stripe where as LG's QHD display is nearly 80% sharper than FHD display which has RGB stripe. LG's QHD display is the true QHD display and Samsung's QHD is the fake QHD display.
Doesn't change the fact that the G3 display isn't very well calibrated, has very poor contrast, and has a terrible oversharpening algorithm that makes things look weird.
1) Your screen analysis results differ from display mate in an oddly large way, different review unit calibrations maybe? They found it to rate much better on accuracy results than here.
2) Battery life results differ a bit than most other sites, they find the note 4 does better than the iPhone 6. In fairness the web browsing results is where it rates the lowest which is where the iPhone 6 barely beats it here, so that doesn't different too much.
Why don't you do a video battery life test? Or a mixed content test. These are areas that OLED screens should do much better due to white screen vs black energy efficiency, something display mate analyzed in much more detail.
Well Display Mate had Note 4 and iPhone 6 Plus screen reviews up for a while now... I honestly would trust them more on the screen side of things anyways (they are far more comprehensive in their analysis and are obviously specialized experts in screens)... just curious as to the differences seen between theirs and the analysis here since they found the Note 4 definitely more accurate vs here.
I do agree that you see very few iPhone 6 reviews with benchmarks though.
I would be very interested in other sites doing in-depth screen analysis runs, should give a better picture... but unfortunately not many sites do and the couple others I have seen are *horrible*, they didn't even realize that the Note 4's screen modes actually supported different color gamuts so they critiqued the color accuracy on the Adaptive mode specifically designed to have a high saturation of the color gamut to fend off ambient light washing out that saturation or the Photo mode which supports the Adobe RGB color gamut (17% larger than sRGB) do a high degree of accuracy, but when viewing non Adobe RGB content it will analyze off obviously. While the Basic mode is designed to be extremely color accurate to the sRGB standard (again Display Mate found it to be the most accurate of any smartphone or tablet screen, even the iPhone 6 screens)... so those sites results are pointless.
So, the iPhone 6+ is declared the best phablet with no supporting statements or qualifications. The Note 4 gets "remains one of the best phablets on the market, but whether it's the best for a given user is a matter of priorities and personal preference rather than any absolutes".
I mean, how blind do you have to be to not see the bias there?
Thanks for the review! As always, this is much more complete information than you find at competing sites.
That said, the Battery Charging Speed Test is not as useful as it could be. Supposedly this phone charges to 50% in the first 30 minutes. That means most of your testing time represents "topping off" the battery. Consider adding 50% or 75% charge speeds instead of (or in addition to) 100%. It would tell us which phones allow a user to quickly get back to business.
Do you think the battery benchmark is biased to LCDs, since the AMOLEDs may perform much better on videos. I think the battery tables would switch around if the tests changed...
Agreed... why aren't there more mixed content battery drain tests? Most sites will at least run web browsing + video drain... and some of the more interesting ones will try to run a combined test to show mixed use (probably more like normal use).
Could Amadtech include a more detailed analysis of the display technology of future phone reviews?
I felt that in this regard, reviews from Displaymate trumps Anandtech. But while Displaymate reviews are more specialised and offer much more infomation, their reviews tend to be for popular phones which can generate hits and publicities for themselves. It might be Anadtech's interest to up their depth in this regard.
But other than that, I must say I am enjoying Post-Anand Anandtech as much as before. Good job Joshua, I hope Anadtech will go a long ways in their review contributions.
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Wow, I was totally dumbstruck to read the camera comparison. I actually spend some time to download original image of Note 4 and iPhone 6+, and although N4 is VASTLY better than 6+ (6+ image is totally desaturated and looks like phone camera image) this review says "while it is better than galaxy s5, iphone 6+ still has better detail" WHAT THE F***?
I think you're the first I've read to exclaim 'VASTLY better' --- both have made two signfificant strides. OS and faster, wetter focusing. With the two, better low light photography. Some well regarded photography sites, mags and forums that have, too, sung the praises of the new optics and IP. Continuing to refine an 8 mpxl cam seems to make sense with a 6+, perfectly optimized '4K' sensor for shooting video (as quixk as these read/write speeds have gotten!)
Galaxy Note 4 is a killer product from Samsung. I have a Ipad mini Retina and I hate when i have multiple tabs and it keeps on refreshing when switch tabs. Low Sunspider score never matters if this keeps on refreshing tabs, its annoying, I tell you. We need more RAM! Better graphic scores are not for every day use! Avid games himself only uses 20 or 30% of his time in gaming if not he plays in his gaming system or PC. Now with bendgate, I am moving away from apple. Lets be realistic and choose wisely and spend wisely. I am looking at G3 and Note 4 and both impresses! Esp N4 in the top of the list.
meh, if all you do is browse the web then choose android. ios is for productivity apps. would say that reloading of tabs isn't that big of a deal since the reload is faster than app switching on the note, even with 4x the ram.
Most reviewers have given the nod to the Samsung display especially in outdoor situations. Battery life has been extended as well and exceeds the iphone 6 plus by a good margin. Seems the writer is a bit biased.
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•5.7-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED® display •Enhanced S Pen™ with more precision and functions •Front Camera 3.7MP + F1.9 / normal Selfie mode (90º), Wide selfie mode (120º) •16MP rear camera with Optical Image Stabilization
Premium Screen; (Quad HD Super AMOLED Display); Our Best Entertainment Display:
Our 5.7-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED® display features more pixels per inch than any other display we’ve made. That means images are clearer, brighter and more captivating than ever before. And now you can capture video in the same high resolution as the display so your personal videos look better than ever before. Enjoy crystal clear images beyond the limits of the human eye. The precise color saturation and the high contrast of 5.7'' Quad HD Super AMOLED display will drive you to feel the fluent and vivid color as if you are looking with the naked eye. High resolution boasts tremendous viewing experience. Truly optimized for web-browsing and e-booking.
Advanced S Pen; Improved touch & feel like a pen; Jot It All Down with the S Pen™:
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Photo Note; A new way to take notes:
Make your own notes. Take photos with Photo Note and instantly convert analog to digital. You can edit notes, change colors, and put in additional memos with S Pen easily.
Bright and Clear images; With Advanced Camera:
Fit More Into Your Photos. The Galaxy Note® 4 has a wide-angle, 3.7MP front-facing camera so you can capture crisper selfies with all of your friends and more of your background. And when you want to photograph anything else, the Galaxy Note 4 comes equipped with a 16MP rear camera with built-in Optical Image Stabilization. So, even when you zoom in, the details in your photo remain in focus. No worries in the dark, still capture the best moments. Shoot brighter and clearer images using Rear and Front camera. 3.7MP front-facing F1.9 lens camera, and a 16MP Smart OIS back camera provides you the best results for every moment of your life even in dark surroundings.
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Operating System
Android OS, v4.4.4 (KitKat out-of-the-box with TouchWiz Nature UX 3.0)
Form Factor Touch Bar
Body Dimensions 153.5 x 78.6 x 8.5 mm (6.04 x 3.09 x 0.33 in) Weight 176 g (6.21 oz.)
Camera resolution (Front) CMOS 3.7MP w/ f1.9 with Selfie modes (90 & 120º) and 1440p Ultra High-definition video recording
Camera resolution (Rear) CMOS 16 MP, 5312 x 2988 pixels, optical image stabilization, autofocus, LED flash
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Front-Facing Camera: Selfie, Wide Selfie
Video Recording Resolution UHD 4K (3840 x 2160p)@30fps, FHD 1920 x 1080p@60fps, FHD 1920 x 1080p@30fps, and HD 1280 x 720p@120fps Optical stabilization, dual-video recording
Main Camera - Flash LED Flash
Main Camera - Auto Focus Auto Focus with Smart Optical Image Stabilization
Battery*
Talk Time Up to 37hours Music Play Time Upto 80hours Internet Use Time 3G: Upto 11hours; LTE: Upto 11hours; Wi-Fi: Upto 12hours Video Play Time Up to 14hours Source: http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones/SM-N9... --- Endurance rating 87h Talk Time Upto 28hours 34minutes Web browsing Upto 10hours 44minutes Video playback Upto 17hours 25minutes Source: http://www.gsmarena.com/battery-test.php3
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Memory
Internal Memory 3GB RAM; 32GB ROM**
External Memory/microSD™ Capacity MicroSD™ (Up to 128GB)
High-Definition 1280 x 720p@120fps Full High-Definition 1920 x 1080p@30fps Full High-Definition 1920 x 1080p@60fps Ultra High-Definition 3840 x 2160@30fps
Video Playing Format:
MP4, M4V, 3GP, 3G2, WMV, ASF, AVI, FLV, MKV, WEBM
Video Playing Resolutions
Ultra High-Definition 4K (3840 x 2160p)@30fps, Full High-Definition 1920 x 1080p@60fps, Full High-Definition 1920 x 1080p@30fps,High-Definition 1280 x 720p@120fps
Fun & Entertainment
IR Remote Control; Multi Window™; Ultra Power Saving Mode; Voice Recorder: Normal Mode, Interview Mode, Meeting Mode, Voice Memo; S Health 3.5; Dynamic Lock Screen; Briefing; Google Mobile Services: Chrome, Drive, Photos, Gmail, Google, Google+, Google Settings, Hangouts, Maps, Play Books, Play Games, Play Newsstand, Play Movie & TV, Play Music, Play Store, Voice Search, YouTube
Here we go… As I have predicted in my post in the iPhone/bend 6 Plus promotion A.K.A. review! You’ll certainly be able to find more, I can no-longer stand in this hypocritical, Apple dummy website! Just take-a-look, and see what I mean:
"Overall, the design of the Galaxy Note 4 is massively improved. While it isn’t quite as amazing as the rounded design of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, it’s one of the best designs I’ve seen for a phone with a removable back cover."
"Unfortunately, those with poor handwriting will likely find that they cannot write as quickly as one may prefer in order to have accurate transcription, but when these features work they really are quite useful and cool."
"Unfortunately, the use of this function continues to be a bit clunky as it doesn’t seem to be aware of whether the previous application supported multi-window."
"While Samsung undoubtedly has a good vision for what they want from the phablet experience, the implementation isn’t quite there."
"Samsung has also implemented dual-pane landscape views for certain applications, but it seems a bit strange that this wasn’t implemented in the settings menu either."
"While implementing such views is certainly dependent upon developer support, there is a level of inconsistency that comes from stock Samsung applications that affects the overall polish of the experience."
"There are also floating windows for some applications, which can help with one-handed usability but are mostly a way of improving multitasking functionality."
"There really isn’t much lag in most places but I have noticed that the multitasking menu has a rather long latency when compared to most other phones."
"This causes a noticeable drop in the speed at which I can multitask on a phone."
"Most people shouldn’t have any issues with TouchWiz at this point, although I suspect that the “option overload” in some parts of the UI will confuse users in general."
"Samsung is likely in a bind here as they once again have to try and keep features and behavior that upgrading users will expect while also accommodating for users new to Samsung devices."
"Samsung in general continues to ship TouchWiz with a massive number of software features that (might be of use), such as the one-handed usability gesture that automatically shrinks the display to keep content within reach of one thumb."
"Most people should find themselves quite content with the TouchWiz UX even if there are odd bugs here and there." "While the Note 4's software is definitely more functional, Apple ships a more polished software stack with the iPhone 6 Plus." Ohs.
"As one can see above, the Galaxy Note 4 has a noticeable uplift in battery life when compared to the Galaxy S5 and lasts significantly longer than the Galaxy Note 3." "It doesn’t last quite as long as the ("iPhone 6 Plus"), but few people should have issues getting through a full day of intensive use." Indeed?
"The iPhone 6 Plus and Note 4 are quite close in overal quality, but looking at the brick building on the right of the image shows that the iPhone 6 Plus is maintaining a higher level of detail in this scene." Really?
"Due to unforseen circumstances, the WiFi performance test will be a bit delayed but unlike on iOS there shouldn't be any real issue when attempting to use iperf." Uh-Oh…
"Overall, one shouldn’t have any significant issues with the software but Apple definitely has an edge in the polish department, even if the functionality isn’t as extensive." AWESOME!
"While there are still some issues with purple smearing and green tints to some level of grayscale, the AMOLED display is an equal to the 1080p display in the iPhone 6 Plus." LIAR…
"In this department, the Galaxy Note 4 does provide a level of improvement when compared to the Galaxy S5, but the higher resolution of the display means that battery life will slightly trail behind the iPhone 6 Plus." deceiver!
"The use of OIS also makes it possible to go from the rather poor low light experience that we saw with the Galaxy S5 to a competitive one in the Note 4."
"While it isn't quite as good as the iPhone 6 Plus in low light, it makes up for it with higher resolution for daytime photography and similar situations where the 1.1 micron pixels aren't really a limitation." And MUCH-MUCH-MORE! Such a fabricator!
Do you still think that this website has a moral left in it? If I may suggest, can the domain name of this site be changed into something like [www.anandtech_apple.com] or something similar? because instead of siting all the features, capabilities, and the overall usefulness of the device, they are instead, looking flaws or things that they can use to either directly, or, for some obvious reason, indirectly, humiliate the Galaxy Note 4, while gracefully with utmost cleverness of course…, hoisting and praising the iPhone/Bend 6 Plus! And how do you call that?, a review?; or, a double-edged sword like while striving at His best to somehow, knockdown the Note 4; on the other hand, lifting-up and promoting the iPhone/Bend 6 Plus!
I have now used a Note 4 in reality. It blows the iphone 6 plus screen away! Much better outdoors. You are 100% right. This guy was clearly shilling for Apple. The Note 4 software is fast and silky. What"polish" is this writer mumbling about?
This post is intended to the non-tech-savvy folks who may have come into this website to get as much information as they can to possibly make the wisest decision by choosing the most right, the best, and the greatest smartphone that is most worthy for their hard-earned money, for their utmost delectation, pleasure, and satisfaction! You can rest-assure that the information you are going to read and find here in this post is cautiously, guardedly, and very conservatively researched and compiled for you to really know and obtain the most accurate and straightforward info pertaining to this two phones; so that you will not be deceived in this review which the intention only is to promote Apple's iPhone 6 plus, and striving at His best to knockdown Samsung's Galaxy Note 4, in the most clever ways possible! Just a piece of advice…, when it comes to the iPhone 6 plus and the Galaxy Note 4, do not trust and believe any types of review from this camouflaged Apple website whether it is for or against, coz it would certainly gonna be very, and I mean, very deceitful one, all for the much-much favor of the iPhone 6 plus, in as much anticipation of the greatest and the uttermost downfall of the Galaxy Note 4!…
Retina HD display 5.5-inch (diagonal), capacitive touchscreen with 16M colors, LED-backlit widescreen Multi‑Touch display with IPS-LCD technology 1920-by-1080-pixel resolution at 401 ppi Contrast ratio: 1361 (nominal), 3.023 (sunlight) Shatter proof glass yes 500 cd/m2 max brightness (typical) Full sRGB standard Dual-domain pixels for wider viewing angles Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating on front Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously Display Zoom Reachability
Other/Common smartphone features
Alert types Vibration, proprietary ringtones Loudspeaker Yes (Voice 67dB / Noise 65dB / Ring 66dB; Noise -94dB / Crosstalk -72dB) Messaging iMessage, SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email Browser HTML5 (Safari) Java No Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic yes Siri natural language commands and dictation yes iCloud cloud service yes iCloud Keychain yes TV-out yes Maps yes iBooks PDF reader yes Audio/video player/editor yes/yes Organizer yes Document viewer/editor yes/yes Photo viewer/editor yes/yes Voice memo/dial/command yes/yes/yes Predictive text input yes
Chipset
A8 chip with 64-bit architecture M8 motion coprocessor
CPU
Dual-core 1.4 GHz Cyclone (ARM v8-based)
GPU
PowerVR GX6450 (quad-core graphics)
iSight Camera
New 8-megapixel (3264 x 2448 pixels), iSight camera with 1.5µ pixels Autofocus with Focus Pixels ƒ/2.2 aperture Optical image stabilization True Tone flash Five-element lens Hybrid IR filter Backside illumination sensor Sapphire crystal lens cover Auto image stabilization Auto HDR for photos Improved face detection Exposure control Panorama (up to 43 megapixels) Burst mode Tap to focus Photo geotagging Timer mode
Video Recording
1080p HD video recording (30 fps or 60 fps) True Tone flash 720p Slowmo video (120 fps or 240 fps) Time-lapse video Cinematic video stabilization Continuous autofocus video Take still photos while recording video Improved face detection 3x zoom Video geotagging
FaceTime HD Camera
1.2-megapixel photos (1280 by 960) ƒ/2.2 aperture 720p HD video recording Backside illumination sensor Auto HDR for photos and videos Improved face detection Burst mode Exposure control Timer mode
Touch ID
Fingerprint identity sensor built into the Home button
Apple Pay
Pay your wallet. Without the wallet.
Paying in stores or within apps has never been easier. Gone are the days of searching for your wallet. The wasted moments finding the right card. Now payments happen with a single touch. Apple Pay will change how you pay with breakthrough contactless payment technology and unique security features built right into the devices you have with you every day. So you can use your iPhone to pay in a simple, secure, and private way. Coming in October An easier way to pay. One touch to pay with Touch ID. Now paying in stores happens in one natural motion — there’s no need to open an app or even wake your display thanks to the innovative Near Field Communication antenna in iPhone 6. To pay, just hold your iPhone near the contactless reader with your finger on Touch ID. You don’t even have to look at the screen to know your payment information was successfully sent. A subtle vibration and beep lets you know. Convenient checkout. On iPhone, you can also use Apple Pay to pay with a single touch in apps. Checking out is as easy as selecting “Apple Pay” and placing your finger on the Touch ID. UberTargetPanera Bread Setup is simple. Passbook already stores your boarding passes, tickets, coupons, and more. Now it can store your credit and debit cards, too. To get started, you can add the credit or debit card from your iTunes account to Passbook by simply entering the card security code. To add a new card on iPhone, use your iSight camera to enter your card information. Or simply type it in manually. The first card you add automatically becomes your default payment card, but you can go to Passbook anytime to pay with a different card or select a new default in Settings. More secure payments. Every time you hand over your credit or debit card to pay, your card number and identity are visible. With Apple Pay, instead of using your actual credit and debit card numbers when you add your card to Passbook, a unique Device Account Number is assigned, encrypted, and securely stored in the Secure Element, a dedicated chip in iPhone. These numbers are never stored on Apple servers. And when you make a purchase, the Device Account Number, along with a transaction-specific dynamic security code, is used to process your payment. So your actual credit or debit card numbers are never shared by Apple with merchants or transmitted with payment. Protect your accounts. Even if you lose your device. If your iPhone is ever lost or stolen, you can use Find My iPhone to quickly put your device in Lost Mode so nothing is accessible, or you can wipe your iPhone clean completely. Keep your purchases private. Apple doesn’t save your transaction information. With Apple Pay, your payments are private. Apple doesn’t store the details of your transactions so they can’t be tied back to you. Your most recent purchases are kept in Passbook for your convenience, but that’s as far as it goes. Keep your cards in your wallet. Since you never have to show your credit or debit card, you never reveal your name, card number, or security code to the cashier when you pay in a store. This additional layer of privacy helps ensure that your information stays where it belongs. With you. The major credit cards. With the same major benefits. Apple Pay works with most of the major credit and debit cards from the top U.S. banks. Just add your participating cards to Passbook and you’ll continue to get all the rewards, benefits, and security of your cards. Visa Master Card American Express Participating Banks. Add your debit and credit cards from these banks.* American Express Bank Of America Capital One Chase Citi Wells Fargo Coming later this year. Barclays Navy Federal Credit Union PNC USAA US Bank Accepted at 220,000 stores. And counting. Apple Pay lets you use iPhone 6 or Apple Watch to pay in over 220,000 stores accepting contactless payments. You can even make purchases within participating apps on iPhone 6. And there are more stores and apps to come. Look for this icon at checkout. Use Apple Pay in these stores. Aeropostale Apple Babies'R'Us BJs Bloomingdale's Champs Chevron Duane Reade Extra Mile Foot Locker Foot Action House of Hoops Kids Foot Locker Lady Foot Locker Macy's McDonalds Nike Office Depot Panera Bread Petco Radioshack Run by Foot Locker Six02 Sports Authority Subway Texaco Toys'R'Us Unleashed Walgreens Wegmans Whole Foods Coming later this year. Anthropologie Disney Free People Petsmart Sephora Staples Urban Outfitters Disney Parks Use Apple Pay in these apps. Airbnb Apple Chairish Disney Fancy Groupon Hotel Tonight Houzz Instacart Lyft MLB Open Table Panera Bread Spring Staples Target Tickets Uber Coming later this year. Eventbrite Jackthreads Levis Stadium Sephora Starbucks Stubhub
802.11a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi hotspot Bluetooth 4.0, A2DP, LE NFC Yes (Apple Pay only)
Location
Assisted GPS and GLONASS Digital compass Wi‑Fi Cellular iBeacon microlocation
Video Calling
FaceTime video Initiate video calls over Wi‑Fi or cellular to any FaceTime-enabled device FaceTime over cellular uses H.264/H.265
Audio Calling
FaceTime audio iPhone 6 to any FaceTime audio-enabled device over Wi‑Fi or cellular Voice over LTE (VoLTE) Wi‑Fi calling
Audio Playback
Audio formats supported: AAC (8 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), HE-AAC, MP3 (8 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, 4, Audible Enhanced Audio, AAX, and AAX+), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV User-configurable maximum volume limit
TV and Video
AirPlay Mirroring, photos, audio, and video out to Apple TV (2nd generation or later) Video mirroring and video out support: Up to 1080p through Lightning Digital AV Adapter and Lightning to VGA Adapter (adapters sold separately) Video formats supported: H.264 video up to 1080p, 60 frames per second, High Profile level 4.2 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format.
Intelligent Assistant
Siri. Your wish is its command.
Siri lets you use your voice to send messages, schedule meetings, place phone calls, and more. Ask Siri to do things just by talking the way you talk. Siri understands what you say, knows what you mean, and even talks back. Siri is so easy to use and does so much, you’ll keep finding more and more ways to use it. It understands what you say. It knows what you mean. Talk to Siri as you would to a person. Say something like “Tell my wife I’m running late” or “Remind me to call the vet.” Siri not only understands what you say, it’s smart enough to know what you mean. So when you ask “Any good burger joints around here?” Siri will reply “I found a number of burger restaurants near you.” Then you can say “Hmm. How about tacos?” Siri remembers that you just asked about restaurants, so it will look for Mexican restaurants in the neighborhood. And Siri is proactive, so it will question you until it finds what you’re looking for. It helps you do the things you do everyday. Siri makes everyday tasks less tasking. It figures out which apps to use for which requests, and it finds answers to queries through sources like Yelp and WolframAlpha. It plays the songs you want to hear, gives you directions, wakes you up, even tells you the score of last night’s game. All you have to do is ask. Identify a song with Shazam. Ask Siri to “Shazam this” and it will tell you what song is playing around you. Buy movies, books and apps. You can find and purchase content from iTunes or iBooks — simply ask for the title you’re looking for and it will take you shopping. Know the score. Ask Siri for baseball, basketball, football, hockey, and soccer scores as well as schedules, rosters, and stats. Choose a movie. Ask Siri to get showtimes, buy tickets from Fandango, look up movie facts, play trailers, show you reviews, and more. Find a restaurant. Ask Siri to search by different criteria or a combination. Siri gets you photos, reviews, and reservations. Post to Facebook. Ask Siri to update your Facebook status and post a comment. Send a tweet. Twitter integration means you can ask Siri to tweet for you. Launch an app. You can ask Siri to open apps. Just say something like “Play Angry Birds” or “Open Photos.” Set reminders. Tell Siri what you need to do. Even say when and where you need reminding. Send a text. Say who it’s for and how the message should read, and Siri writes and sends your text. Check the weather. Siri gives you the forecast for where you are or for anywhere you’re curious about. Find information. Ask Siri almost anything and it finds the answer using sources like Yelp and WolframAlpha. Schedule meetings. Say who, what, where, and when. Siri puts it on your calendar and sends an invitation. Send an email. Ask Siri to write and send email. It can even send an email to more than one person. Find a contact. Say a name, and Siri finds the address, phone number, and other details from your contacts. Set an alarm. Tell Siri to set an alarm for a particular time. You can ask it to set as many as you need. Get directions. Ask something like “Where’s Apple?” and Siri tells you the address and how to get there. Track your stocks. Just say the company name and Siri keeps you up to date with stock details. Set the timer. Tell Siri how much time you need, and it alerts you when time’s up. Ask Siri about Siri. Ask “what can you do?” And Siri tells you exactly that. iOS takes dictation. Here’s another amazing way to get things done: just use your voice. Instead of typing, tap the microphone icon on the keyboard. Then say what you want to say and iPhone listens. Tap done, and iPhone converts your words into text. Use dictation to write messages, take notes, search the web, and more. Dictation also works with third-party apps, so you can update your Facebook status, tweet, or write and send Instagrams. Eyes free. Apple is working with car manufacturers to integrate Siri into select voice control systems. Through the voice command button on your steering wheel, you’ll be able to ask Siri questions without taking your eyes off the road. To minimize distractions even more, your iOS device’s screen won’t light up. With the Eyes Free feature, ask Siri to call people, select and play music, hear and compose text messages, use Maps and get directions, read your notifications, find calendar information, add reminders, and more. It’s just another way Siri helps you get things done, even when you’re behind the wheel.
Built-in / Non-removable 2915 milliampere-hours (mAh) 11.1 Watt-hours (Wh) rechargeable lithium-ion battery Charging via USB to computer system or power adapter Talk time: Up to 24 hours on 3G Internet use: Up to 12 hours on 3G, up to 12 hours on LTE, up to 12 hours on Wi‑Fi HD Video Playback: Up to 14 hours Audio playback: Up to 80 hours Standby time: Up to 16 days (384 hours)
Source: https://www.apple.com/iphone-6/specs/ --- Endurance rating 79hours Talk time 23hours;49minutes Web browsing 9hours;05minutes Video playback 11hours;15minutes
With amazing new capabilities and updates to features you use every day, iOS 8 is the biggest iOS release ever. iOS 8 includes:
•AirDrop •Family Sharing •Notification Center •AirPlay •iCloud Drive •QuickType keyboard •CarPlay •iTunes Radio •Siri •Control Center •Multitasking •Spotlight Search
Built-in Apps
Camera Photos Health Messages Phone FaceTime Mail Music Passbook Safari Maps Siri Calendar iTunes Store App Store Notes Contacts iBooks Game Center Weather Reminders Voice Memos Clock Videos Stocks Calculator Newsstand Compass Podcasts
Free Apps from Apple
iMovie Pages Keynote Numbers iTunes U GarageBand Apple Store Trailers Remote Find My iPhone Find My Friends
Headphones
Apple EarPods with Remote and Mic Storage and travel case
SIM Card
Nano-SIM
Connector
Lightning
Rating for Hearing Aids
iPhone 6 Plus (Model A1522, A1524): M3, T4
Mail Attachment Support
Viewable document types
.jpg, .tiff, .gif (images); .doc and .docx (Microsoft Word); .htm and .html (web pages); .key (Keynote); .numbers (Numbers); .pages (Pages); .pdf (Preview and Adobe Acrobat); .ppt and .pptx (Microsoft PowerPoint); .txt (text); .rtf (rich text format); .vcf (contact information); .xls and .xlsx (Microsoft Excel); .zip; .ics
System Requirements
Apple ID (required for some features)
Internet access
Syncing with iTunes on a Mac or PC requires:
•Mac: OS X v10.6.8 or later •PC: Windows 8; Windows 7; Windows Vista; or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 3 or later •iTunes 11.4 or later
Environmental Requirements
Operating ambient temperature: 32° to 95° F (0° to 35° C) Nonoperating temperature:-4° to 113° F (-20° to 45° C) Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing Operating altitude: tested up to 10,000 feet (3000 m)
Languages
Language support
English (Australia, Canada, UK, U.S.), Chinese (Simplified, Traditional, Traditional Hong Kong), French (Canada, France), German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish (Mexico, Spain), Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
QuickType keyboard support
English (Australia, Canada, India, UK, U.S.), Chinese - Simplified (Handwriting, Pinyin, Stroke), Chinese - Traditional (Cangjie, Handwriting, Pinyin, Stroke, Sucheng, Zhuyin), French (Canada, France, Switzerland), German (Germany, Switzerland), Italian, Japanese (Kana, Romaji), Korean, Spanish, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cherokee, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Emoji, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, Flemish, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Marathi, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic, Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
QuickType keyboard support with predictive input
English (Australia, Canada, India, UK, U.S.), Chinese (Simplified, Traditional), French (Canada, France, Switzerland), German (Germany, Switzerland), Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Thai
Siri languages
English (Australia, Canada, UK, U.S.), Spanish (Mexico, Spain, U.S.), French (Canada, France, Switzerland), German (Germany, Switzerland), Italian (Italy, Switzerland), Japanese, Korean, Mandarin (Mainland China, Taiwan), Cantonese (Hong Kong)
I am just being fair, and just! proving to you, that I am by-all-means, not a Samsung fanboy; but, a true, techno fanboy! It just so happen that Samsung with its Galaxy Note 4, is truly on the upperhand.
Dude, stop posting giant lists of specs. You're coming off as a conspiracy nut anyway, so no one is going to listen to you. Even though I agree that the review feels a little bit Apple-fanboyishy, it's not a totally inaccurate review.
Now, guess what, instead of making the truest, the fairest and the most unbiased reviews posible, you know what?, there webmaster is now getting busy of blocking my comments! Well if you do that, I shall keep on signing-up new account for each and every comment I'm going to post... Would you like that?
This is not a review. At least not an honest one. It is more a compare contrast the iPhone 6 + with a lot of facts omitted. Anandtech is becoming very very biased to the point I don't think I can trust the information here. The display is equal to the iPhone 6 + ??. Laughable. It has been measured to be the best mobile display ever made, setting new benchmarks in most categories.http://www.displaymate.com/Galaxy_Note4_ShootOut_1...
Yeah equal to the iPhone 6 + display sure.
"the Galaxy Note 4 provides a very accurate calibration to the Adobe RGB standard, which is rarely available in consumers displays, and is very useful for high-end digital photography and other advanced imaging applications."
No video playback loop battery test? Hmm I wonder why you wouldn't show us a test where AMOLED would be the one to ace it... Much like LCDs ace the web browsing battery test due to the white backgrounds, that's a really important part of the review lost there, I'll just assume the note crushed most of the competition (6 Plus) in that test and you didn't want to show that.
And this is coming from someone who usually buys phones with LCDs because of the burn in issues, the battery test was unfair
I'm not sure of your reality, but I don't know a whole lot of folks enjoying 'video' all day on their phones. Tablets, sure if you're traveling, hanging out, or 'doing your own thing'. But most folks aren't gonna sit around for 20 hours watching movies Plentry of 'props' were given to AMOLED...& not just with the N4 review. Each iteration and improvement to AMOLED has been recognized. If all of you folks crying 'bias', and you've found sites that are correct with their measurements, why are you still here? It's ridiculous, this cult following of OEMs or a smartphone OS, it's laughable These tests are objective. They (each author doing mobile reviews) continue to prelude their measurements with their dissatisfaction with the testing protocols and options available --- but they're what's available TODAY to objectively measure performance A life spent cheerleading for an operating system on a mobile phone is a life wasted. Buy what works for you and get on with it. This 'comment' section is the funny place these days Apple's kicking ass right now for a reason. Samsung is building some incredible handsets, as are LG & HTC, Sony and Motorola. Competition is good for everyone and as an owner of a business, I use a Note 4 specifically for business I own an iPhone 6+ as my daily driver. Still have a Xoom and the original iPad too. If you don't 'get it' yet, you will. They're ALL incredible devices and a couple hundred points here or there when we're discussing measurements in the tens of thousands --- there's hardly a way to discern the way it's going to work for you, what you do and things you enjoy. If you're an idiot like me and can't decide, get both. Anyone in this comment section beating down the iPhone is wrong. Blaming the author as a biased Apple joker is pretty low, especially as extensive as this review is ...and the amount it cost YOU to read it! I love my Note 4, owned the first and the third as well. He's right. It's a Big leap forward in design. You guys making up the bullshit battery statistics crack me up too. MOST usage on a phone is done on white or a lightly colored display with dark text for contrast. Text. Call. Surf. Read, edit a photo, video, audio in a DAW...but if BOTH can run movies for ten hours plus, WHO CARES! No right minded person would spend that kinda time watching blockbusters on a 5.7" display. Games and emails, magazines and media, social networking and docs, spreadsheets or presentations ...NONE are tests AMOLED is going to 'ace'
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You have to love the 3DMark "onscreen" vs "offscreen" results. As long as any Android doesn't have to actually render images on the screen for the user than it is just as fast as an iPhone. ROLMAO.
I don't get the point about battery life trailing behind the IPhone 6 plus? The IPhone 6 plus doesn't have a removable battery so on a 16 hour plane ride the IPhone 6 plus is a liability not an asset compared to the Galaxy Note 4's ability to have a few spare charged batteries. While I have the European Galaxy S5 4G LTE I have a battery wallet with six fresh batteries so I can go for most of a week without charging. My girlfriend has an IPhone 5 and is now going to purchase the Galaxy Note 4 specifically because of the non removable battery on all IPhones.
Wow onscreen GPU performance is laughable. Really bad vs the competition from apple and Nvidia. My LG G Flex gets better onscreen performance in gfxbench and the iPhone 6 gets double or triple Note 4. Pretty pathetic for a flagship device.
I finally realize why your color accuracy results differ so much from display mate, where you find the iPhone is more color accurate they found the Note 4 more accurate.
"Recently some reviewers have published articles contradicting my Absolute Color Accuracy Measurements for the Samsung Galaxy S5. For example, see this recent review in phone Arena. The problem is that these reviewers are not scientists or display experts, and are using canned display calibration software incorrectly in order to test a display, which produces incorrect results and bogus conclusions. Below is a brief semi-technical analysis...
The Color Difference dE used by the Reviewers Incorrectly includes the Luminance: The reviewers are using retail display calibration software products that use a Color Difference measure called dE, which includes a Luminance (Brightness) Error component in addition to the Color Hue and Saturation (Chromaticity) Error component. Using the Color Difference dE is appropriate for setting the display calibration, but dE is Not a measure of Visual Color Accuracy (Hue and Saturation) because it also includes the Luminance (Brightness). The eye sees and interprets brightness and color as two separate visual issues - dE combines them together. So all conclusions based on using dE for Visual Color Accuracy are incorrect.
Our Color Accuracy only includes Color Hue and Saturation: Since the eye sees color and brightness as two separate visual issues I measure and analyze them separately. My published Absolute Color Accuracy measurements and data analysis includes only the Color (Hue and Saturation) Chromaticity Error component Δ(u'v') or d(u'v'), which evaluates just the difference in Hue and Saturation seen by the eye, and is plotted on a 1976 CIE Uniform Chromaticity Color Diagram in all of my articles. This is the correct method for evaluating Visual Color Accuracy (Hue and Saturation). Compare my very precise and detailed Absolute Color Accuracy plots with their crude figure."
this phone lags on ui and on games like deadtrigger2, don't trust benchmarks! specially when its samsung..... benchamrks are only meaningless numbers!(well useful in some cases)
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BPB - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Where are the final comments?JoshHo - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Apologies, things were a bit hectic in order to meet the embargo. The conclusion is done but some aspects are still incomplete. I should be finished within the next hour.Try-Catch-Me - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Anand would never allow this.CoreDuo - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Except it did happen even when Anand was around. In a few GPU reviews by Ryan Smith and when Brian Klug wrote the smartphone reviews, they did on occasion go up incomplete when there was not enough time between when they got the products to review and the embargo date. They have always been finished within 24 hours of publication though.Try-Catch-Me - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Relax. I'm just making a joke like how people kept saying "Steve would never allow that".kron123456789 - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
LoL. Turns out, that New Exynos 7 Octa and Exynos 5433 in Note 4 are the same SoC))http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconduct...
Andrei Frumusanu - Friday, October 17, 2014 - link
They just decided to market the 5433 as a Exynos 7 series, however there are more in the 7 series (7420) coming out as pointed out in my article.noelbonner - Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - link
There are a number of higher rated phones, I recommend seeing http://tinyurl.com/p7dujj9 among others.windycity23 - Monday, November 9, 2015 - link
Or better yet, check out one of these http://tinyurl.com/qzz8a8y - quick and easy to read.Ramon Zarat - Monday, October 20, 2014 - link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughter
A joke you say? Don't quit your day job just yet to become a comedian because I don't see any joke here as I failed to get the humor and I'm not laughing either. Next time, put a smiley or something so we can decipher your cryptic intentions: ;)
ex2bot - Tuesday, October 28, 2014 - link
I know this thread was several days ago, but . . .I think part of the fun is catching people off guard, esp. those who have to check Wikipedia to see if something is funny!! :)
vraman0601 - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Where did Anand go ??grayson_carr - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Kidnapped, by Apple.webmastir - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
He got fired few months ago.Homeles - Sunday, October 19, 2014 - link
Perhaps you should look up the definition of "fired."Ramon Zarat - Monday, October 20, 2014 - link
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/14571/20140901/a...The0ne - Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - link
It is quite obvious and pathetically sad in regards to Apple reviews here.Guspaz - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
The iPhone reviews normally go up weeks after the phone launches, what's different about this one that requires it to go up unfinished?tralalalalalala40 - Friday, October 17, 2014 - link
There was a preliminary ip6 review a few days after just like this.bushgreen - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Why are they not using they emmc 5.0 cards?KPOM - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
It looks like they focused on the design and the display this time. I like the trend away from over saturated displays.mkozakewich - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
No, they used movie mode. I didn't catch if they went there from where they were.Really, though, a larger gamut is a strength. All we need is for OEMs to create profiles so that we don't have the weird problems we had. They can create an sRGB profile, and an AdobeRGB profile, too. Then, when Android finally supports proper colour systems, they'll be able to introduce that immediately.
Wolfpup - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Disappointed that this isn't waterproof like the Galaxy S5 and S5 Active. I'd get the S5 just because of that.Samus - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Waterproof phones have never proven a big hit with consumers. The Kyocera Hydro and Galaxy S5 have a lot of inconvenient plugs and gaskets, with harder to press buttons. Then there is the added weight of the Active. There is always an Achilles heel to mil spec implementation.But it's good consumers have the option of waterproof devices, I just don't think the Note 4 being waterproof would be a compelling feature. I mean, if you drop the thing in the urinal its so big chances are the toilet cake would prop it up...and it's probably not on every sailors list of devices to have something so big.
Hrel - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
There's also the fact that it's not very important to most people, if you'll be by water on a boat or something a $10 bag/case will do. Or hell, even a ziplock bag really. If it's a major concern for you then you're probably willing to spend the $100 on micro-sealing.petar_b - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
I see waterproof feature it more like investment into protecting the investment rather than a feature. I would pay $100 on micro-sealing - just to be sure: if I am walking on the rain (following GPS), or phone accidentally falls in a puddle, or my kid accidentally drops it in the bath that it would survive. And protection bags are ugly, can't go on meeting with that, can't put on/off all the time. Additional frames to protect the screen or side sealing do reduce GPS signal; so no after market solutions.darkich - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
I think the lack of water resistance is actually the result of the stylus slot. I could be wrong, but it seems somewhat logical that waterproofing such design would be difficultTams80 - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
I don't think so, unless the plastic of the stylus slot couldn't be impermeable (something to do with thickness?). It uses Wacom Penabled technology, so it should be possible (the Fujitsu Q584 has some water resistance with such a AD stylus).darkich - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
I think the lack of water resistance is actually the result of the stylus slot. I could be wrong, but it seems somewhat logical that waterproofing such design would be difficultrobinthakur - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Disappointing really, not much wow factor here even if the materials have improved it just looks like a large Galaxy 5 with even less items of interest. Guess I will stay with the iPhone 6 plus.theduckofdeath - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
If you can't see or understand the difference between a Galaxy Note 4 and a Galaxy S5, I really don#t see what you're doing commenting technology. Cementing the prejudice that iPhone buyers have no clue about technology and should always be considered the last people to ask for advice from?melgross - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Really? I always thought it was Android users who thought that way. I guess you never know.KPOM - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
I'm as big a techie as anyone on lots of subjects but am an Apple fan. There is a lot of advanced technology underneath the pretty Apple UI.Ratman6161 - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Little bit of trolling there? Since the iPhone 6 plus has only been out a couple of weeks I find it hard to believe that switching phones is actually an option. Unless you are fabulously wealthy then what a surprise...you aren't going to dump your brand new phone for something else.KPOM - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
The OP could be within the return window for the 6 plus.melgross - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
But no one would be nuts enough to do that.mkozakewich - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
If you get a custom back plate with Doge on it, it will have wow factor. Such custom. Very shibe.Tams80 - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
The iPhone 6 Plus just looks like a iPhone 6... oh, wait.xype - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
"Overall, the design of the Galaxy Note 4 is massively improved. "Uh… it}s still ugly though. So maybe _slightly_ improved?
theduckofdeath - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Uh, or we really couldn't care much less about you trying to BEND the interpretations of things here...xype - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
Uh, huh, haha, you are teh funnay.It _is_ ugly, actually. Plenty of better looking Android devices out there. I don’t know why tech writers need to even add stuff like "design massively improved", when it’s actually not _massively_ improved.
And, no, I don’t think the iPhone 6 is massively improved design-wise (though it looks better from the front than anything Samsung offers), either.
And design is not subjective and open to interpretation. If it was, people wouldn’t be able to agree on a "best design", ever, because the type of looks people liked would be evenly divided among all kinds of designs. And there would be no rules on how to make things look good, either. Just because companies like Samsung don’t understand them it doesn’t mean that those don’t exist.
Tams80 - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
People don't agree on 'best design ever'. Well a small group of self congratulatory can, but such a group have often lost touch with reality.theduckofdeath - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
You're shooting yourself in the foot if you're arguing that design is not subjective, as Samsung sell 300 million smartphones every year, all of them tends to follow the design language of their current flagship device. So....?tralalalalalala40 - Friday, October 17, 2014 - link
They are giving phones away. Consumers like that, and Samsung is only helping google ironically. Seen their profit's this quarter?solipsism - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
So the Note 4 is thicker, header, only a 32GB only, and USB 3.0 replaced with USB 2.0 over the Note 3? Am I reading that properly?theduckofdeath - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Probably not, because we don't know what you mean by header. :DThe phone will also come with 64GB storage and it supports SD storage at 128GB and 256GB when that size is in the stores.
The shift back to USB 2 is probably a pretty smart one, as the larger USB 3 connector isn't very convenient.
melgross - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Using the USB 3 connector wouldn't allow you to make phone calls, among other problems. They had to get rid of it. I can't understand why testing didn't show that.NZtechfreak - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
I didn't wait for 256gb micro SD, using a full size 256gb SD in my Note 3 (modified wooden case and ribbon adapter). So, if you must have that right now you can. I'm mulling over whether to get the 512gb SD card and stay with my Note 3 until my contact renews and then grab a Note 4 or something else...rpg1966 - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
"...every GPS fix is a hot fix and takes around 5 seconds" and "...I saw that it took around 50 seconds to achieve a lock".I'm sure I'm being a bit thick, but what does this mean? The initial lock is ~50s, then ~5s thereafter?
JoshHo - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
The initial lock is 50s only if you deliberately clear assistance data (or it expires after a few days of non-use) with airplane mode on. Otherwise it should be less than 10-15 seconds.akdj - Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - link
I'm sure I'm being ignorant here, but how do I 'access' that satellite display?'Best option....the one built into Qualcomm's own modem...'
Is that an option already 'built in' or an app downloaded from the Play Store? I owned the original Note and couldn't get out of it quick ebough! Contract expired, I went in to look for my next dedicated business line (the original Note's responsibilities;)) --- & about thirty seconds with the Note 3 I caved. Bought it and I've enjoyed it daily without issue for almost 14 months now. It's paid off in two, and this review leaves me curious. Especially the display & it's 'relative' efficiency maintained in essentially the same package and by doubling it's resolution.
Something to be said for these sharper, HiDPI displays ...especially for those of us with 'aging eyes' ;) --- I couldn't be happier with this resolution push, and the good riddance to 3D!
Sorry, TL/DR
What is he using as an app for that screenshot in the GPS lock tool?
Thanks
NeatOman - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Curious to see the difference in battery life between 2.4Ghz Wireless N and Wireless AC, I've noticed a significant increase with my Nexus 5, and of course it was said the rest of the tests will be up later so that's cool.skinygeek - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
No Word about the Exynos Variant? I was expecting a detailed analysis of the Exynos 5433. Was the Exynos version not provided to you for review?Laxaa - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
I think the Exynos variant is the international one. I guess Samsung didn't send them one as it won't be out in the US.skinygeek - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Then they should have bought it . How hard it is to get an international variant of a device. There are websites which ship you these things. I don't expect such things from other websites, but Exynos 5433 marks a new Chapter in SOC's for Android phones for being the first high end A57+A53 CPU and i was expecting Anandtech to review hat SOC given their expertise in such things .Laxaa - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Hopefully, a comparison will be made at a later date if they get a hold of such a device. I agree that it will be interesting to see how if fares.extide - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Even though it's A57/A53 it is still locked down to 32-bit only :(gunsman - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
but it will allow us to better quantify the addition of ARMv8 and 64 bit once ARMv8 enabled A57/A53 comes outKPOM - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Anandtech is still a U.S.-oriented site. And the 805 will be sold in more markets. There is plenty of data out there on the Exynos' performance. It isn't that good, which is why Samsung used the 805 in its most lucrative markets such as the US, EU, and Japan.heartinpiece - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
I disagree with the performance part, Some benchmarks show that the exynos 5433 surpasses the 805. The only reason 805 is used, (as far as I know) is the modem chips.a simple comparison:
805 Geekbench: of note 4
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/780401
exynos 5433 geekbench of note4
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/775316
Now i don't mean to say this benchmark shows the whole story.
But I am saying that 'it is that better'
Anandtech is a US oriented site, however for first A57+A53 SoC, it is well worth the review.
theduckofdeath - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
I think this is a US centric site and the Exynos variant will probably never be on sale in the US.gunsman - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Will you guys be getting the international version of this as well? Would love to see performance of A57/A53 compared to the 805. Would also love to see comparison of ARMv7 A57/A53 to (when it comes out) ARMv8 enabled A57/A53 to see benefits of new instruction sets and 64 bitmayankleoboy1 - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
thisMost important think about the Note4 is the Exynos 5433 SOC, which is on the 20nm node. Snapdragon 805 is a known entity.
mpokwsths - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
@JoshHo: You do know that the NAND performance measurements and comparisons between different OS and benchmark programs is not accurate, right? I own a Nexus 5 which, with Android L preview, achieves more than double the performance figures than with Kitkat. That same has been observed with other Android L devices: http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-7-2013/gener...I'm saying this because of the misleading graphs you provide, showing the iphones miles ahead of Kitkat android devices. Well, they are NOT. They are just on a different OS / benchmark. Iphones should be removed from the graph ASAP, or include some Android L preview measurements as well. Otherwise, the NAND performance graphs are highly misleading.
JoshHo - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
I don't have any particular reason to suspect Androbench pre-Android L, but I would expect some sort of compatibility issue with Androbench and Android L dev preview.NAND performance is generally not OS-dependent.
mpokwsths - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
OS AND bench programI would expect a great amount of optimizations in the fs layer / kernel i/o scheduler and caching departments, together with newer controller device drivers of Android L. To make things simple: What if the compatibility issue of Androbench is with Kitkat and only with Android L will the true performance numbers show?
We will know soon enough...
Ortanon - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
LOL What are you talking about? The Galaxy Note 4 is a package of hardware and software. Your Nexus 5 has Android L Preview on it; The Galaxy Note 4 does not. It gets the benchmark rating that it gets, and the iPhone gets the rating that it gets.mpokwsths - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
whatever....uhuznaa - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
What's wrong with testing devices with the OS that they're actually delivered with? After all it's the performance you'll see in actual use.KPOM - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
We all know that the first thing the average consumer does is root the phone and install a bootleg version of the OS.synaesthetic - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
Isn't that the whole point of using Android? I mean, it's kind of a trainwreck when OEM skins and carrier bloatware gets involved. If it wasn't for custom OS flashing I would probably be using a Jolla phone or hanging onto the old Nokia N9. Or just using an iPhone. I mean, if I can't tweak and customize, then my problem with iOS largely disappears.snake2332 - Wednesday, October 22, 2014 - link
That literally is the first thing I do, but I'm not average. However, do average consumers read anandtech? I think not, so there is some relevance to arguing against uhuznaa's statement since a fair amount of people won't be using the stock ROM at all.tralalalalalala40 - Friday, October 17, 2014 - link
So you want him to root the phone to get a proper test. That sounds like an accurate way to model the average consumer use. hasnake2332 - Wednesday, October 22, 2014 - link
Who cares about the average consumer here?seanlumly - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
This review is good, but lacks discussion (or mention, for that matter) about Gear VR, a very significant first-step development in the world of mobile phones. If nothing else, VR may have an effect on the decisions surrounding critical hardware found in future mobiles.theduckofdeath - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
I noticed that too. the Gear VR is actually one the toys I'm looking forward to the most over the next few months.seanlumly - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Me too! And while I'm looking forward to it, I'm confident that it is a bold and important step for the industry. It potentially adds an alternative to large-screen TVs that have become standard, and open up new ways of sharing information. More importantly, the mobile phone is so ubiquitous that this lowers the cost of VR significantly, and puts it into more hands.Such a thing deserves serious mention in a review of this device as its a serious development.
theuglyman0war - Monday, October 20, 2014 - link
if this is a petition for the interest in the future coverage of vr and phones strapped to my face with rubberbands then count me in pleeeze ( me to )firstever - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
From the brightness tests, the display is 331 nits. How is the readability in the daytime? What does the auto boost do to make the display brighter?theduckofdeath - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
With a contrast ratio of nearly 1,000,000:1 it has a dynamic range in the region of 1000 times better than any LCD display.That gigantic difference means that those miniscule differences in the specs sites like Anandtech always loves to focus on are pretty much irrelevant. I think it was GSM arena who made an visual comparison of outdoor readability on all major brands a few months ago, and even though the GS5 had around half the brightness of the "best" competitors, the GS5 was a lot more readable outdoors.
The adaptive brightness increased the outdoor brightness of something like 100 nits on older Samsung devices, I guess this is in the same region.
dakishimesan - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
You can't ignore maximum brightness. OLED screens have a high contrast ratio because their black levels are very deep, which offsets the lower brightness to still give it a high ratio. But maximum brightness still matters for visibility outside.theduckofdeath - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
You can however dismiss its importance. If the dynamic range is below the thousands on one tech and maybe above the millions on the other tech, other numbers suddenly become really, really irrelevant.JoshHo - Monday, October 27, 2014 - link
This is technically inaccurate. Outdoor visibility is primarily determined by maximum brightness and diffuse reflectance, not native contrast.jnb - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
I played around with an iPhone 6 Plus and the Note 4 at Best Buy the other day. I thought there was a big difference in the display with the Note 4 being much better. It is interesting to see a review like this say there are basically equal. It goes to show that you should really look at them in person and form your own opinion. These numbers don't mean anything to an average person.melgross - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
That's very misleading. While the blacks are just a small bit better than the best LCD displays, the whites are half as bright. In normal lighting, the much dimmer AMOLED displays will look fine, but outside, in direct sunlight, they will be washed out.The GS5 is definitely not more readable outside. So just go ahead and ignore reality. Brightness is directly responsible for readability outside. It's not magic.
Tams80 - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
It's not just brightness. I don't know what Samsung have done here, but Nokia CBD (proper CBD) increased sunlight readability without just increasing screen brightness.theduckofdeath - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
It's not "a small bit better", it's a much bigger difference than what you get between TN and IPS. 100's times bigger in fact.skinygeek - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Wondering how the Battery life of Exynos Variant would be . The 20nm Tech should give it an edge.danstek - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Is the graph comparing camera focus latency missing? Not showing up for me.juicytuna - Sunday, October 19, 2014 - link
It's there now, but unfortunately too late as most of the sites readership will miss out on knowing how awesomely fast the camera is.A stark contrast with the iPhone 6 review where the phase detect autofocus was put on pedestal and showered with confetti.
JoshHo - Monday, October 27, 2014 - link
As noted in the review, the Note 4 doesn't use PDAF for continuous AF so that number isn't representative of the total "AF speed" as there's significant lag between recognizing that a scene is out of focus and the start of the focus run.Drumsticks - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
It really amazes me (and is a testament to their engineers) that the A8 seems to deliver near twice the IPC/per clock performance as Krait.Also: good review in general! I think phablets are too big for me, but I like keeping up with where the market likes to go.
Calista - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Fully agree, the Apple A-series are amazing. Half the frequency, half the core count, one third the memory and still the fastest SOC more often than not while still being very frugal.danbob999 - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
CPU benchmarks are not designed to test the benefit of having more RAM. One could design a benchmark using 2GB RAM. The iPhone would be slower than a Galaxy S3 because it would be swapping (or even failing).Javascript benchmarks test the browser more than the CPU. That's why the iPhone 5s still performs well in these benchmarks even tough it has a very slow CPU with no ARMv8.
mudman - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Wikipedia states that the a7 in iPhone 5s is based on armv8-a.kokono - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Does this mean iPhone6+ lags when compared to the new Galaxy?melgross - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Android needs more RAM to begin with. It's not a useful comparison.tipoo - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
That's true, but not to the point of making 1GB on iOS moot vs 2-3GB Android phones. It definitely swaps apps out of memory more.KPOM - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
How many phone apps really use more than 1gb right now? The iPad Air 2 will have 2 GB and my guess is that the iPhone 6s will too. But for now 1GB is fine.akdj - Thursday, October 30, 2014 - link
You're entirely TOO WRONG!Lol, what crap. I've got a Note 3, specifically for my business. The 5s as my personal, daily driver. I love em both for different reasons. Especially with what we do, the stylus on the Note for when we're doing it ...& collecting the pay for it with our clients using the SPen to sign their credit card receipt.
Other than that...nope. Nothing is 'better' on the S3, 4, 5 or Note 3 than the iPhone 5s. Display preferences aside, as an owner of both, for over a year can attest to their performance. It's ridicukius realily. My Note, again being a business line doesn't have a whole lot of apps other than productivity, a couple of 'creative' types and some excellent games to kill time on sites.
Any and EVERY app in 'parity' (available on both platforms) overwhelmingly plays more fluently on the iPhone. Productivity, cloud access and any type of 'creative' apps are abound, and they're excellent ...well optimized to a single, specific type ID hardware
It's amazing to me, in a stock cold boot of a Note 3 (I've reset a couple times), it's ALREADY using 19-2.1GB of RAM! The OEM and carrier crap is a silly joke
Apps come to iOS first. Are optimized for a single platform (& able to be played for years, fluently and with updates!). Crazy, a ⅓ the RAM, twice the processors at twice the clock speed is definitely the more 'usable' system. Customizing aside, I enjoy my home screen but for seconds ...it's the apps, their design UI and ability to 'run with reliability'. That's where iOS Smokes iOS. Secondarily, it's for a vertical & horizontal system, ala OS X.
Android has Chrome
The SPIII is a nice piece. If Windows gets ohine's figures out, Samsung's screwed.
Oh, sorry. They already are!
Then there's the tablets. Windows, again ..the SPIII is special
The Air2, incredible.
There's NOT a comparable tablet running Android. Nor will Chromebooks become anything other than a home appliance.
Sorry. You certainty don't understand RAM.
akdj - Thursday, October 30, 2014 - link
Sorry. Something was lost in translation there;)I'm not going to go tbrough the dozen+ grammatical and punctuation errors, but my point was to compare iOS to Android with their siblings ...the Chromebook and OS X. Windows has the same if they're able to finally figure phones out! The SPIII is a HELLUVA design and enough difference between itself and the iPad (including the price, you're looking more like comparing a nice 13" rMBP w/Haswell ans Iris Pro graphics;))
Vertical and horizontal support. iOS and OS X with continuity and handoff being another extension of Airdrop is absolutely incredible!
The new near 15million pixel 5K iMac is a Grand Slam
iPad Air 2, it's A8X, a 2 and a ½ gen old 64 bit design---2GB of RAM, & a buck 28 built in with a half million 'optomized' tablet apps for everything from photo and video manipulation with Adobe, MS, & OS X integrated and aggregated alls to music creation, mixing and mastering ...magazines that are mind blowing, killer browser choices and unbelievably powerful video editing suites, drawing and sketching programs...old 'Chilton' fix 'em up guides or ForeFlight to file your F/P n tell ya how much gas you should pump in, while it considers diversions and real time weather and traffic. TCAS ans ADSB ...Jep charts, plates and updates in 'now' time, THAT'S a 'Tool!'
Farting around with ROMS is like rewiring your microwave. Why? It's to cook, melt, boil, or pop your F'ung popcorn!
tipoo - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Indeed. I'm excited for Nvidias Denver CPU cores, finally someone else going with two big cores rather than four small.mpokwsths - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Something is not right here..."Around 450 nits" with auto brightness on???
Displaymate strongly disagrees with Anandtech. They measured "478 - 750 cd/m2" with auto brightness (1 nit = 1 cd/m2)
http://www.displaymate.com/Galaxy_Note4_ShootOut_1...
melgross - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
There is variability in production. The differences you are seeing are well within that variability.mpokwsths - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Don't be ridiculous, please...Displaymate: "When Automatic Brightness is turned On, the Galaxy Note 4 reaches an impressive 750 cd/m2 in High Ambient Light, where high Brightness is really needed – it is the brightest mobile display that we have ever tested"
It is an out-of-space claim that there can be a variability in production of a 70% level...
tralalalalalala40 - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
hopefully the display doesn't keep that brightness very long. those pentile pixels will burn out. you'll have to use a screen saver.theduckofdeath - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
Sounds like a poor excuse for inaccurate testing to me. If the error margin was that huge, the display would be horrible to look at.JoshHo - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
In practice I find that the 100% APL value is more representative of the perceived brightness, this is due to a difference in testing methodology.Pissedoffyouth - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
I just bought a note 3, and I'm more than happy with it with a zerolemon 10000mah battery. This doesn't really offer much more really, more of an slight upgrade.I'd be interested to see why they didn't up the battery a little more considering they made the chassis bigger...
darkich - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
I find it impossible not to notice the Apple reality distortion effect in this article.But nice try hiding it, AT.
I'll just state a fact proven by pretty much every other review - battery endurance on this device is clearly better than that on the iPhone 6+.
reininop - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
I agree on some points. When he describes in one sentence how the UI is "surprisingly functional", it implies some degree of expectation that the UI was broken before he even reviewed it. In the next sentence, he then describes the much more functional Iphone 6 software stack.I have not used either so the statement maybe be completely factual, but I have to take it with a grain of salt when there is obvious bias in the previous statement.
grayson_carr - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Doesn't he say the Note 4 software is more functional, but the iPhone 6 Plus software is more polished? I would have to agree with that having used both phones.theduckofdeath - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
All other sites are complaining about the lack of polish for the iPhone 6 plus, that nothing is optimised for the large display. In contrast, everything is optimised for the large display on the Note 4. So, yeah, I agree with the OP. Anandtech has been suffering from acute RDF for several years.tralalalalalala40 - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
10 thousand+ apps have already updated on iOS to support large display in iP6. Apps will catch up much faster than expected.melgross - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Um, about the same.tralalalalalala40 - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
zug zug the battery is better because it has more Li ions zug zugreality: battery life depends of efficiency of calculations
clumsyalex - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Hey these photos/videos were taken at UCLA!kmmatney - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
Yep! I spent many years there getting my BS and MS in Materials Science (1988 - 1994). The building on the right didn't exist when I was there. I think that's Sproul Hall in the distance.kokono - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Why Apple is still faster??It has only a double core cpu and no RAM..
melgross - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Different philosophy. Instead of using four weak cores, they use two strong ones. Comlanies using eight cores generally are using four BIG, and four LITTLE. All of those cores are weaker yet. There's just so much you can do with similarly sized chips.darkich - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Yep, different approach to low power design.Apple use just two underclocked but very beefed up, large cores, while Qualcomm uses more small, simple, but high clocked cores.
Just think about the fact that Snapdragon 805 probably doesn't draw more power than the A8, even while being clocked twice higher and built on a larger node.
If you doubt that, the Galaxy Note 4 itself is your proof - longer battery endurance than iPhone 6+(according to every other review) despite of having a modestly larger battery, supposedly less efficient OS, triple the RAM, bigger screen and larger resolution panel.
There's probably no way it could achieve that if snapdragon 805 was any less efficient than A8
darkich - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
One more thing.. the CPU benchmarks posted here are nothing but a single threaded Web scripts. Which means, almost entirely dependant on software optimization and single core performance.If you want a good raw performance indication of the CPU setup itself, look up Geekbench.
There the Snapdragon 805 easily beats the A8 in overall score.
The A8 beats it even more easily in the single core part though.
KPOM - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Not many apps are designed for multicore support. Also, Apple chips run at top speed for longer. It's like comparing Carl Lewis to Paula Radcliffe. Lewis can run faster for short bursts but Radcliffe has more endurance and is still running at the top of her game after 26.2 miles.KPOM - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Not necessarily. The biggest drain on the battery is the screen. OLED is more efficient than LCD. So perhaps the Qualcomm CPU is less efficient but Samsung makes it up in the display. Now that Samsung seems to have solved the saturation issue perhaps the real story is that if Apple and Samsung were still partners instead of frenemies the battery life on the latest iPhones would be absolutely amazing instead of just good considering the smaller batteries they use.tralalalalalala40 - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
not more efficient when browsing the web (white background)tralalalalalala40 - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
Because you were lied to by a 100 billion dollar marketing machine. more megapixels is not better (if you don't account for pixel size etc.). more RAM is not better (if you don't account for fast memory compression techniques). more clock speed is not better (if you don't account for electromigration and current leakage, etc. in the transistors).techcrazy - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Samsung amoled display doesn't appear as sharp as other LCD display. It's because of their PenTile subpixel layout. Their PentTile subpixel layout is lower than a conventional RGB stripe, so true subpixel density increases around 20%. - So basically Samsung's QHD display only 20% sharper than FHD display which has RGB stripe where as LG's QHD display is nearly 80% sharper than FHD display which has RGB stripe. LG's QHD display is the true QHD display and Samsung's QHD is the fake QHD display.grayson_carr - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Doesn't change the fact that the G3 display isn't very well calibrated, has very poor contrast, and has a terrible oversharpening algorithm that makes things look weird.MattL - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Good review... two things though:1) Your screen analysis results differ from display mate in an oddly large way, different review unit calibrations maybe? They found it to rate much better on accuracy results than here.
2) Battery life results differ a bit than most other sites, they find the note 4 does better than the iPhone 6. In fairness the web browsing results is where it rates the lowest which is where the iPhone 6 barely beats it here, so that doesn't different too much.
Why don't you do a video battery life test? Or a mixed content test. These are areas that OLED screens should do much better due to white screen vs black energy efficiency, something display mate analyzed in much more detail.
Arcetnathon7 - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Don't you think strange that diplaymate submit the test weeks before the launch ?Same thing with Galaxy Alpha and GSMarena review.
I really suspect Samsung chosing prototypes. Every other review after launch never meet those results.
MattL - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
Not strange at all, often certain places will get early review devices, they got an early iPhone 6 and 6+ too.Arcetnathon7 - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
Yes, but every early review of iPhone 6 and 6+ are "strangely" without any benchmarks.We always have to wait for Anandtech :)
MattL - Friday, October 17, 2014 - link
Well Display Mate had Note 4 and iPhone 6 Plus screen reviews up for a while now... I honestly would trust them more on the screen side of things anyways (they are far more comprehensive in their analysis and are obviously specialized experts in screens)... just curious as to the differences seen between theirs and the analysis here since they found the Note 4 definitely more accurate vs here.I do agree that you see very few iPhone 6 reviews with benchmarks though.
I would be very interested in other sites doing in-depth screen analysis runs, should give a better picture... but unfortunately not many sites do and the couple others I have seen are *horrible*, they didn't even realize that the Note 4's screen modes actually supported different color gamuts so they critiqued the color accuracy on the Adaptive mode specifically designed to have a high saturation of the color gamut to fend off ambient light washing out that saturation or the Photo mode which supports the Adobe RGB color gamut (17% larger than sRGB) do a high degree of accuracy, but when viewing non Adobe RGB content it will analyze off obviously. While the Basic mode is designed to be extremely color accurate to the sRGB standard (again Display Mate found it to be the most accurate of any smartphone or tablet screen, even the iPhone 6 screens)... so those sites results are pointless.
tralalalalalala40 - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
Does the user have to manually change the color scheme on the note4 for every app?tralalalalalala40 - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
The golden phone review, hand picked by robots maybe? At least they aren't programming their phones to cheat benchmarks anymore (most likely)trynberg - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
So, the iPhone 6+ is declared the best phablet with no supporting statements or qualifications. The Note 4 gets "remains one of the best phablets on the market, but whether it's the best for a given user is a matter of priorities and personal preference rather than any absolutes".I mean, how blind do you have to be to not see the bias there?
KPOM - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
This is actually a much more positive review of the Note 4 than ArsTechnica. AT basically said it comes down to your OS preference.MattL - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
Ars had the most negative Note 4 review I've seen anywhere on the web... really surprised about that, very disappointed.tralalalalalala40 - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
Go to samsung's website, they have a great review of the note 4 that should cheer you up.TrackSmart - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Thanks for the review! As always, this is much more complete information than you find at competing sites.That said, the Battery Charging Speed Test is not as useful as it could be. Supposedly this phone charges to 50% in the first 30 minutes. That means most of your testing time represents "topping off" the battery. Consider adding 50% or 75% charge speeds instead of (or in addition to) 100%. It would tell us which phones allow a user to quickly get back to business.
KPOM - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
To be fair, the iPhone 6 also charges faster if you use the iPad charger. AT's tests were using whatever charger they put into the box.MattL - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
... and the Note 4 comes with a higher volt charger, that's one of the advertised benefits.Mumrik - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Why all the comparisons to iPhones?I suspect that decision is made long before people arrive at a review like this. Competing Android handsets are what is relevant here.
KPOM - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
Not necessarily.tralalalalalala40 - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
they plot the data they haveJcm800 - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
Err what happened to the comments about the external speaker audio /quality? Did I miss that or something? Great review apart from that.Native7i - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link
I was here to read some real deep review.wantthefun - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
Do you think the battery benchmark is biased to LCDs, since the AMOLEDs may perform much better on videos. I think the battery tables would switch around if the tests changed...MattL - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
Agreed... why aren't there more mixed content battery drain tests? Most sites will at least run web browsing + video drain... and some of the more interesting ones will try to run a combined test to show mixed use (probably more like normal use).tralalalalalala40 - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
when the scientific results don't agree with your bias find a test where it will.dunemessiah - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
No GPU comparisons to Tegra K1?snake2332 - Thursday, October 23, 2014 - link
Probably because the K1 is considered a tablet-only technology for now, at least until it shows up in a phone/phablet.the snob - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
Could Amadtech include a more detailed analysis of the display technology of future phone reviews?I felt that in this regard, reviews from Displaymate trumps Anandtech. But while Displaymate reviews are more specialised and offer much more infomation, their reviews tend to be for popular phones which can generate hits and publicities for themselves. It might be Anadtech's interest to up their depth in this regard.
But other than that, I must say I am enjoying Post-Anand Anandtech as much as before. Good job Joshua, I hope Anadtech will go a long ways in their review contributions.
the snob - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
I kept spelling "Anandtech" wrongly, my most sincere apologies! : )edwardjames2014 - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
Actually, a lot of people were wrong about big phones. When Samsung first came out with the Note in 2011,I wasn’t the only one who laughed at the idea of a 5.3-inch smartphone. But I was wrong.This is trendency! The Note 4 is the most comfortable large-screened phone, Case for Samsung Galaxy Note 4 htt p://www.ca secoco.com/?031fackamato - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
Can we please get the OnePlus One in the charts as well?tralalalalalala40 - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
vapor phones? who cares about a phone with 10k users worldwide?Phantasmal - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
Is there the latency shot charts/graphs in the article because I don't seem to see them. Thanks.SydneyBlue120d - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
I'd like to know more about audio quality and about the MDM9x35 real world performance. Thanks.heartinpiece - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
Will you be reviewing the Exynos version as well?If i'm not mistaken, it sports a A53+A57 (but running 32bit Android)
nerd1 - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
So again anandtech use Chrome browser to do web testing and not showing any multi core benchmarks at all. LOLtralalalalalala40 - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
don't take the phone so seriously. default browser is fatally flawed, have to use chrome.Krysto - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
You should review the Exynos one, too.nerd1 - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
Wow, I was totally dumbstruck to read the camera comparison. I actually spend some time to download original image of Note 4 and iPhone 6+, and although N4 is VASTLY better than 6+ (6+ image is totally desaturated and looks like phone camera image) this review says "while it is better than galaxy s5, iphone 6+ still has better detail" WHAT THE F***?akdj - Thursday, October 30, 2014 - link
I think you're the first I've read to exclaim 'VASTLY better' --- both have made two signfificant strides. OS and faster, wetter focusing. With the two, better low light photography.Some well regarded photography sites, mags and forums that have, too, sung the praises of the new optics and IP. Continuing to refine an 8 mpxl cam seems to make sense with a 6+, perfectly optimized '4K' sensor for shooting video (as quixk as these read/write speeds have gotten!)
jerrylzy - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link
I believe the daylight scene of camera test is at UCLA.pjcamp - Friday, October 17, 2014 - link
So the Xperia Z3 was released before this device -- is there a plan to review it in the near future?sgmuser - Friday, October 17, 2014 - link
Galaxy Note 4 is a killer product from Samsung. I have a Ipad mini Retina and I hate when i have multiple tabs and it keeps on refreshing when switch tabs. Low Sunspider score never matters if this keeps on refreshing tabs, its annoying, I tell you. We need more RAM! Better graphic scores are not for every day use! Avid games himself only uses 20 or 30% of his time in gaming if not he plays in his gaming system or PC. Now with bendgate, I am moving away from apple. Lets be realistic and choose wisely and spend wisely. I am looking at G3 and Note 4 and both impresses! Esp N4 in the top of the list.tralalalalalala40 - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
meh, if all you do is browse the web then choose android. ios is for productivity apps. would say that reloading of tabs isn't that big of a deal since the reload is faster than app switching on the note, even with 4x the ram.DaveMo - Sunday, October 19, 2014 - link
Ugh. I also can't stand the browser tabs always reloading.beck2050 - Friday, October 17, 2014 - link
Most reviewers have given the nod to the Samsung display especially in outdoor situations. Battery life has been extended as well and exceeds the iphone 6 plus by a good margin. Seems the writer is a bit biased.tralalalalalala40 - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
lols, if it doesn't fit your world view it's flawed. writers use most scientific methodology.KuyaMarkEduard - Tuesday, October 21, 2014 - link
This post is intended to the non-tech-savvy folks who may have come into this website to get as much information as they can to possibly make the wisest decision by choosing the most right, the best, and the greatest smartphone that is most worthy for their hard-earned money, for their utmost delectation, pleasure, and satisfaction! You can rest-assure that the information you are going to read and find here in this post is cautiously, guardedly, and very conservatively researched and compiled for you to really know and obtain the most accurate and straightforward info pertaining to this two phones; so that you will not be deceived in this review which the intention only is to promote Apple's iPhone 6 plus, and striving at His best to knockdown Samsung's Galaxy Note 4, in the most clever ways possible! Just a piece of advice…, when it comes to the iPhone 6 plus and the Galaxy Note 4, do not trust and believe any types of review from this camouflaged Apple website whether it is for or against, coz it would certainly gonna be very, and I mean, very deceitful one, all for the much-much favor of the iPhone 6 plus, in as much anticipation of the greatest and the uttermost downfall of the Galaxy Note 4!…•5.7-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED® display
•Enhanced S Pen™ with more precision and functions
•Front Camera 3.7MP + F1.9 / normal Selfie mode (90º), Wide selfie mode (120º)
•16MP rear camera with Optical Image Stabilization
Premium Screen;
(Quad HD Super AMOLED Display);
Our Best Entertainment Display:
Our 5.7-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED® display features more pixels per inch than any other display we’ve made. That means images are clearer, brighter and more captivating than ever before. And now you can capture video in the same high resolution as the display so your personal videos look better than ever before.
Enjoy crystal clear images beyond the limits of the human eye.
The precise color saturation and the high contrast of 5.7'' Quad HD Super AMOLED display will drive you to feel the fluent and vivid color as if you are looking with the naked eye.
High resolution boasts tremendous viewing experience.
Truly optimized for web-browsing and e-booking.
Advanced S Pen;
Improved touch & feel like a pen;
Jot It All Down with the S Pen™:
S Pen offers an improved digital handwriting experience through enhanced pressure sensitivity.
Enrich you writing through more precise expression.
Do more than ever before with the new, enhanced S Pen. The S Pen makes it easy to jot things down anytime with Action Memo™ and it's like a mouse for your phone, making it easy to highlight, cut, copy and paste whatever you want, on any screen.
Also, when you don’t feel like using the keyboard, you can handwrite your emails and text messages and have your words converted into text instantly. ††
Photo Note;
A new way to take notes:
Make your own notes. Take photos with Photo Note and instantly convert analog to digital.
You can edit notes, change colors, and put in additional memos with S Pen easily.
Bright and Clear images;
With Advanced Camera:
Fit More Into Your Photos.
The Galaxy Note® 4 has a wide-angle, 3.7MP front-facing camera so you can capture crisper selfies with all of your friends and more of your background. And when you want to photograph anything else, the Galaxy Note 4 comes equipped with a 16MP rear camera with built-in Optical Image Stabilization. So, even when you zoom in, the details in your photo remain in focus.
No worries in the dark, still capture the best moments.
Shoot brighter and clearer images using Rear and Front camera. 3.7MP front-facing F1.9 lens camera, and a 16MP Smart OIS back camera provides you the best results for every moment of your life even in dark surroundings.
Fast charging, high capacity;
Shortened recharge, lengthened use:
Fast Charging to Keep You Moving.
With the new Adaptive Fast Charging, your battery can go from zero up to 50% in about 30 minutes, so you can spend less time connected to an outlet and more time connecting with people you care about. And when your battery is running low, use Ultra Power Saving Mode to extend your power—even at 10%, you can still receive calls and texts for up to 24 hours.*
Thanks to charging speed improvement, waiting times of Galaxy Note 4 have decreased significantly. Go from zero to 50% in around 30 minutes - usually a 55-minute process. All you have to do is plug in and get dressed after taking a relaxing shower. If you're running out of your time, use Ultra Power Saving mode.
Free Flowing and Natural multitasking;
Intuitive, for more convenience:
Multi-window, Gain flexibility by managing multiple applications at once on a single screen using simple gestures.
Do More at the Same Time.
Multi Window™ lets you open more than one app at a time on the same screen. You can browse the Internet while you post your vacation photos. You can even open one app on top of another, making it easier to move between apps.†
Operating System
Android OS, v4.4.4 (KitKat out-of-the-box with TouchWiz Nature UX 3.0)
Form Factor
Touch Bar
Body
Dimensions 153.5 x 78.6 x 8.5 mm (6.04 x 3.09 x 0.33 in)
Weight 176 g (6.21 oz.)
Compatible Devices
Gear Circle, Gear Fit Manager, Gear Manager, Gear VR
Camera
Camera resolution (Front)
CMOS 3.7MP w/ f1.9 with Selfie modes (90 & 120º) and 1440p Ultra High-definition video recording
Camera resolution (Rear)
CMOS 16 MP, 5312 x 2988 pixels, optical image stabilization, autofocus, LED flash
Features
Optical Image Stabilization; Rear Facing Camera: Beauty Face, Shot & More, Rear-cam selfie, Selective Focus, Virtual Tour, Dual Camera, Dual Shot, Simultaneous HD video and image recording, geo-tagging, touch focus, face/smile detection, panorama, Real-time HDR
Front-Facing Camera:
Selfie, Wide Selfie
Video Recording Resolution
UHD 4K (3840 x 2160p)@30fps, FHD 1920 x 1080p@60fps, FHD 1920 x 1080p@30fps, and HD 1280 x 720p@120fps
Optical stabilization, dual-video recording
Main Camera - Flash
LED Flash
Main Camera - Auto Focus
Auto Focus with Smart Optical Image Stabilization
Battery*
Talk Time
Up to 37hours
Music Play Time
Upto 80hours
Internet Use Time
3G: Upto 11hours; LTE: Upto 11hours; Wi-Fi: Upto 12hours
Video Play Time
Up to 14hours
Source:
http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones/SM-N9...
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Endurance rating
87h
Talk Time
Upto 28hours 34minutes
Web browsing
Upto 10hours 44minutes
Video playback
Upto 17hours 25minutes
Source:
http://www.gsmarena.com/battery-test.php3
Battery Type and Size
Lithium-ion–removable battery, 3220 milliampere-hours (mA.h), 3.85 volts, 12.4 watt-hours (Wh), Fast Charging (Adaptive Fast Charging (AFC), & QC2.0)
Memory
Internal Memory
3GB RAM; 32GB ROM**
External Memory/microSD™ Capacity
MicroSD™ (Up to 128GB)
SDHC/SHD SD Card
microSD™ (up to 128GB)
Network
Frequencies and Data Type
CDMA Data ‐ 1x and EVDO Rev0/RevA
2G CDMA: CDMA800, USPCS1900; GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G (CDMA): 800 / 1900 MHz; HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
4G LTE 800 / 850 / 900 / 1800 / 2100 / 2600; B2 / B4 / B5 / B12 / B17
Multi-SIM no
SIM Size
Micro-SIM (3FF)
Connectivity
GPRS Yes
EDGE Yes
Speed
HSDPA, 42 Mbps; HSUPA; LTE, Cat4, 50 Mbps UL, 150 Mbps DL (N910C)
HSDPA, 42 Mbps; HSUPA; LTE, Cat6, 50 Mbps UL, 300 Mbps DL (N910S)
WLAN
Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band 2.4G+5GHz, VHT80 MIMO, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth
v4.1, A2DP, EDR, LE
DLNA yes
NFC Yes
Infrared port Yes
Download booster yes
USB
microUSB v2.0 (MHL 3), USB Host, USB On-the-go
Ant+ Yes
Bluetooth Profiles
A2DP, AVRCP, DI, HFP, HID, HOGP, HSP, MAP, OPP, PAN, PBAP
Headphone jack
3.5mm Stereo
TV-out via MHL A/V link
Yes
Location Technology
GPS Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
PC Sync.
KIES
Chipset
Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 (SM-N910S)
Exynos 5433 (SM-N910C)
CPU
Processor Speed, Type
Quad-core 2.7 GHz Krait 450 (SM-N910S)
Quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A53 & Quad-core 1.9 GHz Cortex-A57 (SM-N910C)
GPU
Adreno 420 (SM-N910S)
Mali-T760 (SM-N910C)
Display
Main Display Resolution
2560 x 1440 (Quad HD), (515 ppi pixel density)
Main Display Size
5.7" Quad HD Super AMOLED®, capacitive touchscreen with curved Gorilla Glass 3
Main Display Technology
Capacitive touchscreen, Super AMOLED®
Color Depth
16M
Sunlight contrast ratio
4.033
Multitouch
Yes
Protection
Corning Gorilla Glass 3
S Pen Support
Air Command (Action Memo, Smart Select, Image Clip, Screen Write) S Note, Photo Note, Direct Pen Input, Pen Select, AirView
Features
Alert types
Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes
Java
Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
S-Voice natural language commands and dictation
Yes
Air gestures yes
Fingerprint scanner with PayPal support and private mode access
Yes/yes/yes
Messaging
SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM
Browser
HTML5
IR port for remote control functionality yes
S Pen stylus
Yes (15 g, Hovering 15 mm, Pressure level 2,048)
Enhanced Multi-window – multitasking support
Yes/yes
Dropbox with free (50 GB cloud storage) yes
Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic yes
Business/Enterprise
Yes
Premium Camera
Yes
MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.264/H.263 player
Yes...
MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player
Yes...
Photo/video editor yes/yes
Document editor yes
Voice memo/dial/commands
Yes/yes/yes
Enabled for 4G LTE
Yes
Audio
Features
Ultra High Quality Audio (~192KHz, 24 bit) support
Adapt Sound
Sound Alive
Wise Voice 2.0
Extra Volume 2.0
3 Mics (Directional Voice Recording)
Audio Playing Format
MP3, M4A, 3GA, AAC / AAC＋/eAAC＋, OGG, OGA, WAV, WMA, AMR-NB/WB, AWB, Vorbis, FLAC, MID, MIDI, XMF, MXMF, IMY, RTTTL, RTX, OTA
Video
Features
Recording & Playback:
High-Definition 1280 x 720p@120fps
Full High-Definition 1920 x 1080p@30fps
Full High-Definition 1920 x 1080p@60fps
Ultra High-Definition 3840 x 2160@30fps
Video Playing Format:
MP4, M4V, 3GP, 3G2, WMV, ASF, AVI, FLV, MKV, WEBM
Video Playing Resolutions
Ultra High-Definition 4K (3840 x 2160p)@30fps, Full High-Definition 1920 x 1080p@60fps, Full High-Definition 1920 x 1080p@30fps,High-Definition 1280 x 720p@120fps
Fun & Entertainment
IR Remote Control; Multi Window™; Ultra Power Saving Mode; Voice Recorder: Normal Mode, Interview Mode, Meeting Mode, Voice Memo; S Health 3.5; Dynamic Lock Screen; Briefing; Google Mobile Services: Chrome, Drive, Photos, Gmail, Google, Google+, Google Settings, Hangouts, Maps, Play Books, Play Games, Play Newsstand, Play Movie & TV, Play Music, Play Store, Voice Search, YouTube
Business & Office
SAFE™ with KNOX™
Yes
Sensors
Accelerometer;
Gyroscope;
Proximity sensor;
Fingerprint Sensor;
Magnetometer (compass);
Geomagnetic Sensor;
Barometer;
Gesture Recognition & control sensor;
RGB (red, green and blue) Sensor;
Hall-Effect Sensor;
UV (ultraviolet) sensor;
HR (heart-rate) monitor;
Pulse Oximeter (SpO2) sensor
snake2332 - Thursday, October 23, 2014 - link
Umm, wow, thanks for the copy & paste specs.clzcxcml - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
they support n910c and n910u exynos7 t - moblie 4 g?KuyaMarkEduard - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
Here we go… As I have predicted in my post in the iPhone/bend 6 Plus promotion A.K.A. review! You’ll certainly be able to find more, I can no-longer stand in this hypocritical, Apple dummy website! Just take-a-look, and see what I mean:"Overall, the design of the Galaxy Note 4 is massively improved. While it isn’t quite as amazing as the rounded design of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, it’s one of the best designs I’ve seen for a phone with a removable back cover."
"Unfortunately, those with poor handwriting will likely find that they cannot write as quickly as one may prefer in order to have accurate transcription, but when these features work they really are quite useful and cool."
"Unfortunately, the use of this function continues to be a bit clunky as it doesn’t seem to be aware of whether the previous application supported multi-window."
"While Samsung undoubtedly has a good vision for what they want from the phablet experience, the implementation isn’t quite there."
"Samsung has also implemented dual-pane landscape views for certain applications, but it seems a bit strange that this wasn’t implemented in the settings menu either."
"While implementing such views is certainly dependent upon developer support, there is a level of inconsistency that comes from stock Samsung applications that affects the overall polish of the experience."
"There are also floating windows for some applications, which can help with one-handed usability but are mostly a way of improving multitasking functionality."
"There really isn’t much lag in most places but I have noticed that the multitasking menu has a rather long latency when compared to most other phones."
"This causes a noticeable drop in the speed at which I can multitask on a phone."
"Most people shouldn’t have any issues with TouchWiz at this point, although I suspect that the “option overload” in some parts of the UI will confuse users in general."
"Samsung is likely in a bind here as they once again have to try and keep features and behavior that upgrading users will expect while also accommodating for users new to Samsung devices."
"Samsung in general continues to ship TouchWiz with a massive number of software features that (might be of use), such as the one-handed usability gesture that automatically shrinks the display to keep content within reach of one thumb."
"Most people should find themselves quite content with the TouchWiz UX even if there are odd bugs here and there."
"While the Note 4's software is definitely more functional, Apple ships a more polished software stack with the iPhone 6 Plus." Ohs.
"As one can see above, the Galaxy Note 4 has a noticeable uplift in battery life when compared to the Galaxy S5 and lasts significantly longer than the Galaxy Note 3."
"It doesn’t last quite as long as the ("iPhone 6 Plus"), but few people should have issues getting through a full day of intensive use." Indeed?
"The iPhone 6 Plus and Note 4 are quite close in overal quality, but looking at the brick building on the right of the image shows that the iPhone 6 Plus is maintaining a higher level of detail in this scene." Really?
"Due to unforseen circumstances, the WiFi performance test will be a bit delayed but unlike on iOS there shouldn't be any real issue when attempting to use iperf." Uh-Oh…
"Overall, one shouldn’t have any significant issues with the software but Apple definitely has an edge in the polish department, even if the functionality isn’t as extensive." AWESOME!
"While there are still some issues with purple smearing and green tints to some level of grayscale, the AMOLED display is an equal to the 1080p display in the iPhone 6 Plus." LIAR…
"In this department, the Galaxy Note 4 does provide a level of improvement when compared to the Galaxy S5, but the higher resolution of the display means that battery life will slightly trail behind the iPhone 6 Plus." deceiver!
"The use of OIS also makes it possible to go from the rather poor low light experience that we saw with the Galaxy S5 to a competitive one in the Note 4."
"While it isn't quite as good as the iPhone 6 Plus in low light, it makes up for it with higher resolution for daytime photography and similar situations where the 1.1 micron pixels aren't really a limitation." And MUCH-MUCH-MORE! Such a fabricator!
Do you still think that this website has a moral left in it? If I may suggest, can the domain name of this site be changed into something like [www.anandtech_apple.com] or something similar? because instead of siting all the features, capabilities, and the overall usefulness of the device, they are instead, looking flaws or things that they can use to either directly, or, for some obvious reason, indirectly, humiliate the Galaxy Note 4, while gracefully with utmost cleverness of course…, hoisting and praising the iPhone/Bend 6 Plus! And how do you call that?, a review?; or, a double-edged sword like while striving at His best to somehow, knockdown the Note 4; on the other hand, lifting-up and promoting the iPhone/Bend 6 Plus!
beck2050 - Monday, October 20, 2014 - link
I have now used a Note 4 in reality. It blows the iphone 6 plus screen away! Much better outdoors.You are 100% right. This guy was clearly shilling for Apple. The Note 4 software is fast and silky. What"polish" is this writer mumbling about?
KuyaMarkEduard - Tuesday, October 21, 2014 - link
This post is intended to the non-tech-savvy folks who may have come into this website to get as much information as they can to possibly make the wisest decision by choosing the most right, the best, and the greatest smartphone that is most worthy for their hard-earned money, for their utmost delectation, pleasure, and satisfaction! You can rest-assure that the information you are going to read and find here in this post is cautiously, guardedly, and very conservatively researched and compiled for you to really know and obtain the most accurate and straightforward info pertaining to this two phones; so that you will not be deceived in this review which the intention only is to promote Apple's iPhone 6 plus, and striving at His best to knockdown Samsung's Galaxy Note 4, in the most clever ways possible! Just a piece of advice…, when it comes to the iPhone 6 plus and the Galaxy Note 4, do not trust and believe any types of review from this camouflaged Apple website whether it is for or against, coz it would certainly gonna be very, and I mean, very deceitful one, all for the much-much favor of the iPhone 6 plus, in as much anticipation of the greatest and the uttermost downfall of the Galaxy Note 4!…iPhone 6 Plus
Capacity:
Internal
16GB
64GB
128GB
Memory card slot No
1 GB RAM
Weight and Dimensions
6.22 inches (158.1 mm)
3.06 inches (77.8 mm)
0.28 inch
(7.1 mm)
Weight: 6.07 ounces (172 grams)
Display
Retina HD display
5.5-inch (diagonal), capacitive touchscreen with 16M colors, LED-backlit widescreen Multi‑Touch display with IPS-LCD technology
1920-by-1080-pixel resolution at 401 ppi
Contrast ratio: 1361 (nominal), 3.023 (sunlight)
Shatter proof glass yes
500 cd/m2 max brightness (typical)
Full sRGB standard
Dual-domain pixels for wider viewing angles
Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating on front
Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously
Display Zoom
Reachability
Other/Common smartphone features
Alert types
Vibration, proprietary ringtones
Loudspeaker
Yes (Voice 67dB / Noise 65dB / Ring 66dB; Noise -94dB / Crosstalk -72dB)
Messaging
iMessage, SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email
Browser HTML5 (Safari)
Java No
Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic yes
Siri natural language commands and dictation yes
iCloud cloud service yes
iCloud Keychain yes
TV-out yes
Maps yes
iBooks PDF reader yes
Audio/video player/editor yes/yes
Organizer yes
Document viewer/editor yes/yes
Photo viewer/editor yes/yes
Voice memo/dial/command yes/yes/yes
Predictive text input yes
Chipset
A8 chip with 64-bit architecture
M8 motion coprocessor
CPU
Dual-core 1.4 GHz Cyclone (ARM v8-based)
GPU
PowerVR GX6450 (quad-core graphics)
iSight Camera
New 8-megapixel (3264 x 2448 pixels), iSight camera with 1.5µ pixels
Autofocus with Focus Pixels
ƒ/2.2 aperture
Optical image stabilization
True Tone flash
Five-element lens
Hybrid IR filter
Backside illumination sensor
Sapphire crystal lens cover
Auto image stabilization
Auto HDR for photos
Improved face detection
Exposure control
Panorama (up to 43 megapixels)
Burst mode
Tap to focus
Photo geotagging
Timer mode
Video Recording
1080p HD video recording (30 fps or 60 fps)
True Tone flash
720p Slowmo video (120 fps or 240 fps)
Time-lapse video
Cinematic video stabilization
Continuous autofocus video
Take still photos while recording video
Improved face detection
3x zoom
Video geotagging
FaceTime HD Camera
1.2-megapixel photos (1280 by 960)
ƒ/2.2 aperture
720p HD video recording
Backside illumination sensor
Auto HDR for photos and videos
Improved face detection
Burst mode
Exposure control
Timer mode
Touch ID
Fingerprint identity sensor built into the Home button
Apple Pay
Pay your wallet. Without the wallet.
Paying in stores or within apps has never been easier. Gone are the days of searching for your wallet. The wasted moments finding the right card. Now payments happen with a single touch.
Apple Pay will change how you pay with breakthrough contactless payment technology and unique security features built right into the devices you have with you every day. So you can use your iPhone to pay in a simple, secure, and private way.
Coming in October
An easier way to pay.
One touch to pay with Touch ID. Now paying in stores happens in one natural motion — there’s no need to open an app or even wake your display thanks to the innovative Near Field Communication antenna in iPhone 6. To pay, just hold your iPhone near the contactless reader with your finger on Touch ID. You don’t even have to look at the screen to know your payment information was successfully sent. A subtle vibration and beep lets you know.
Convenient checkout. On iPhone, you can also use Apple Pay to pay with a single touch in apps. Checking out is as easy as selecting “Apple Pay” and placing your finger on the Touch ID.
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Setup is simple. Passbook already stores your boarding passes, tickets, coupons, and more. Now it can store your credit and debit cards, too. To get started, you can add the credit or debit card from your iTunes account to Passbook by simply entering the card security code.
To add a new card on iPhone, use your iSight camera to enter your card information. Or simply type it in manually. The first card you add automatically becomes your default payment card, but you can go to Passbook anytime to pay with a different card or select a new default in Settings.
More secure payments.
Every time you hand over your credit or debit card to pay, your card number and identity are visible. With Apple Pay, instead of using your actual credit and debit card numbers when you add your card to Passbook, a unique Device Account Number is assigned, encrypted, and securely stored in the Secure Element, a dedicated chip in iPhone. These numbers are never stored on Apple servers. And when you make a purchase, the Device Account Number, along with a transaction-specific dynamic security code, is used to process your payment. So your actual credit or debit card numbers are never shared by Apple with merchants or transmitted with payment.
Protect your accounts. Even if you lose your device. If your iPhone is ever lost or stolen, you can use Find My iPhone to quickly put your device in Lost Mode so nothing is accessible, or you can wipe your iPhone clean completely.
Keep your purchases private.
Apple doesn’t save your transaction information. With Apple Pay, your payments are private. Apple doesn’t store the details of your transactions so they can’t be tied back to you. Your most recent purchases are kept in Passbook for your convenience, but that’s as far as it goes.
Keep your cards in your wallet. Since you never have to show your credit or debit card, you never reveal your name, card number, or security code to the cashier when you pay in a store. This additional layer of privacy helps ensure that your information stays where it belongs. With you.
The major credit cards. With the same major benefits.
Apple Pay works with most of the major credit and debit cards from the top U.S. banks. Just add your participating cards to Passbook and you’ll continue to get all the rewards, benefits, and security of your cards.
Visa
Master Card
American Express
Participating Banks.
Add your debit and credit cards from these banks.*
American Express
Bank Of America
Capital One
Chase
Citi
Wells Fargo
Coming later this year.
Barclays
Navy Federal Credit Union
PNC
USAA
US Bank
Accepted at 220,000 stores. And counting.
Apple Pay lets you use iPhone 6 or Apple Watch to pay in over 220,000 stores accepting contactless payments. You can even make purchases within participating apps on iPhone 6. And there are more stores and apps to come.
Look for this icon at checkout.
Use Apple Pay in these stores.
Aeropostale
Apple
Babies'R'Us
BJs
Bloomingdale's
Champs
Chevron
Duane Reade
Extra Mile
Foot Locker
Foot Action
House of Hoops
Kids Foot Locker
Lady Foot Locker
Macy's
McDonalds
Nike
Office Depot
Panera Bread
Petco
Radioshack
Run by Foot Locker
Six02
Sports Authority
Subway
Texaco
Toys'R'Us
Unleashed
Walgreens
Wegmans
Whole Foods
Coming later this year.
Anthropologie
Disney
Free People
Petsmart
Sephora
Staples
Urban Outfitters
Disney Parks
Use Apple Pay in these apps.
Airbnb
Apple
Chairish
Disney
Fancy
Groupon
Hotel Tonight
Houzz
Instacart
Lyft
MLB
Open Table
Panera Bread
Spring
Staples
Target
Tickets
Uber
Coming later this year.
Eventbrite
Jackthreads
Levis Stadium
Sephora
Starbucks
Stubhub
Cellular and Wireless
Model A1522 (GSM)*
UMTS/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA (850, 900, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100 MHz)
GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
LTE (Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 28, 29)
Model A1522 (CDMA)*
CDMA EV-DO Rev. A and Rev. B (800, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100 MHz)
UMTS/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA (850, 900, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100 MHz)
GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
LTE (Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 28, 29)
Model A1524*
CDMA EV-DO Rev. A and Rev. B (800, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100 MHz)
UMTS/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA (850, 900, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100 MHz)
TD-SCDMA 1900 (F), 2000 (A)
GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
FDD-LTE (Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 28, 29)
TD-LTE (Bands 38, 39, 40, 41)
802.11a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth 4.0, A2DP, LE
NFC
Yes (Apple Pay only)
Location
Assisted GPS and GLONASS
Digital compass
Wi‑Fi
Cellular
iBeacon microlocation
Video Calling
FaceTime video
Initiate video calls over Wi‑Fi or cellular to any FaceTime-enabled device
FaceTime over cellular uses H.264/H.265
Audio Calling
FaceTime audio
iPhone 6 to any FaceTime audio-enabled device over Wi‑Fi or cellular
Voice over LTE (VoLTE)
Wi‑Fi calling
Audio Playback
Audio formats supported: AAC (8 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), HE-AAC, MP3 (8 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, 4, Audible Enhanced Audio, AAX, and AAX+), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV
User-configurable maximum volume limit
TV and Video
AirPlay Mirroring, photos, audio, and video out to Apple TV (2nd generation or later)
Video mirroring and video out support: Up to 1080p through Lightning Digital AV Adapter and Lightning to VGA Adapter (adapters sold separately)
Video formats supported: H.264 video up to 1080p, 60 frames per second, High Profile level 4.2 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format.
Intelligent Assistant
Siri. Your wish is its command.
Siri lets you use your voice to send messages, schedule meetings, place phone calls, and more. Ask Siri to do things just by talking the way you talk. Siri understands what you say, knows what you mean, and even talks back. Siri is so easy to use and does so much, you’ll keep finding more and more ways to use it.
It understands what you say. It knows what you mean.
Talk to Siri as you would to a person. Say something like “Tell my wife I’m running late” or “Remind me to call the vet.” Siri not only understands what you say, it’s smart enough to know what you mean. So when you ask “Any good burger joints around here?” Siri will reply “I found a number of burger restaurants near you.” Then you can say “Hmm. How about tacos?” Siri remembers that you just asked about restaurants, so it will look for Mexican restaurants in the neighborhood. And Siri is proactive, so it will question you until it finds what you’re looking for.
It helps you do the things you do everyday.
Siri makes everyday tasks less tasking. It figures out which apps to use for which requests, and it finds answers to queries through sources like Yelp and WolframAlpha. It plays the songs you want to hear, gives you directions, wakes you up, even tells you the score of last night’s game.
All you have to do is ask.
Identify a song with Shazam.
Ask Siri to “Shazam this” and it will tell you what song is playing around you.
Buy movies, books and apps.
You can find and purchase content from iTunes or iBooks — simply ask for the title you’re looking for and it will take you shopping.
Know the score.
Ask Siri for baseball, basketball, football, hockey, and soccer scores as well as schedules, rosters, and stats.
Choose a movie.
Ask Siri to get showtimes, buy tickets from Fandango, look up movie facts, play trailers, show you reviews, and more.
Find a restaurant.
Ask Siri to search by different criteria or a combination. Siri gets you photos, reviews, and reservations.
Post to Facebook.
Ask Siri to update your Facebook status and post a comment.
Send a tweet.
Twitter integration means you can ask Siri to tweet for you.
Launch an app.
You can ask Siri to open apps. Just say something like “Play Angry Birds” or “Open Photos.”
Set reminders.
Tell Siri what you need to do. Even say when and where you need reminding.
Send a text.
Say who it’s for and how the message should read, and Siri writes and sends your text.
Check the weather.
Siri gives you the forecast for where you are or for anywhere you’re curious about.
Find information.
Ask Siri almost anything and it finds the answer using sources like Yelp and WolframAlpha.
Schedule meetings.
Say who, what, where, and when. Siri puts it on your calendar and sends an invitation.
Send an email.
Ask Siri to write and send email. It can even send an email to more than one person.
Find a contact.
Say a name, and Siri finds the address, phone number, and other details from your contacts.
Set an alarm.
Tell Siri to set an alarm for a particular time. You can ask it to set as many as you need.
Get directions.
Ask something like “Where’s Apple?” and Siri tells you the address and how to get there.
Track your stocks.
Just say the company name and Siri keeps you up to date with stock details.
Set the timer.
Tell Siri how much time you need, and it alerts you when time’s up.
Ask Siri about Siri.
Ask “what can you do?” And Siri tells you exactly that.
iOS takes dictation.
Here’s another amazing way to get things done: just use your voice. Instead of typing, tap the microphone icon on the keyboard. Then say what you want to say and iPhone listens. Tap done, and iPhone converts your words into text. Use dictation to write messages, take notes, search the web, and more. Dictation also works with third-party apps, so you can update your Facebook status, tweet, or write and send Instagrams.
Eyes free.
Apple is working with car manufacturers to integrate Siri into select voice control systems. Through the voice command button on your steering wheel, you’ll be able to ask Siri questions without taking your eyes off the road. To minimize distractions even more, your iOS device’s screen won’t light up. With the Eyes Free feature, ask Siri to call people, select and play music, hear and compose text messages, use Maps and get directions, read your notifications, find calendar information, add reminders, and more. It’s just another way Siri helps you get things done, even when you’re behind the wheel.
External Buttons and Connectors
Home/Touch ID sensor
Volume up/down
Ring/silent
On/off
Sleep/wake
Microphone
Lightning connector
3.5-mm stereo
headphone minijack
Built-in speaker
Power and Battery
Built-in / Non-removable 2915 milliampere-hours (mAh) 11.1 Watt-hours (Wh) rechargeable lithium-ion battery
Charging via USB to computer system or power adapter
Talk time: Up to 24 hours on 3G
Internet use: Up to 12 hours on 3G, up to 12 hours on LTE, up to 12 hours on Wi‑Fi
HD Video Playback: Up to 14 hours
Audio playback: Up to 80 hours
Standby time: Up to 16 days (384 hours)
Source:
https://www.apple.com/iphone-6/specs/
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Endurance rating
79hours
Talk time
23hours;49minutes
Web browsing
9hours;05minutes
Video playback
11hours;15minutes
Source:
http://www.gsmarena.com/battery-test.php3?idPhone=...
Sensors
Touch ID
Barometer
Three-axis gyro
Accelerometer
Proximity sensor
Ambient light sensor
Operating System
iOS 8 (upgradable to iOS 8.0.2 and beyond)
With amazing new capabilities and updates to features you use every day, iOS 8 is the biggest iOS release ever.
iOS 8 includes:
•AirDrop
•Family Sharing
•Notification Center
•AirPlay
•iCloud Drive
•QuickType keyboard
•CarPlay
•iTunes Radio
•Siri
•Control Center
•Multitasking
•Spotlight Search
Built-in Apps
Camera
Photos
Health
Messages
Phone
FaceTime
Mail
Music
Passbook
Safari
Maps
Siri
Calendar
iTunes Store
App Store
Notes
Contacts
iBooks
Game Center
Weather
Reminders
Voice Memos
Clock
Videos
Stocks
Calculator
Newsstand
Compass
Podcasts
Free Apps from Apple
iMovie
Pages
Keynote
Numbers
iTunes U
GarageBand
Apple Store
Trailers
Remote
Find My iPhone
Find My Friends
Headphones
Apple EarPods with Remote and Mic
Storage and travel case
SIM Card
Nano-SIM
Connector
Lightning
Rating for Hearing Aids
iPhone 6 Plus (Model A1522, A1524): M3, T4
Mail Attachment Support
Viewable document types
.jpg, .tiff, .gif (images); .doc and .docx (Microsoft Word); .htm and .html (web pages); .key (Keynote); .numbers (Numbers); .pages (Pages); .pdf (Preview and Adobe Acrobat); .ppt and .pptx (Microsoft PowerPoint); .txt (text); .rtf (rich text format); .vcf (contact information); .xls and .xlsx (Microsoft Excel); .zip; .ics
System Requirements
Apple ID (required for some features)
Internet access
Syncing with iTunes on a Mac or PC requires:
•Mac: OS X v10.6.8 or later
•PC: Windows 8; Windows 7; Windows Vista; or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 3 or later
•iTunes 11.4 or later
Environmental Requirements
Operating ambient temperature: 32° to 95° F (0° to 35° C)
Nonoperating temperature:-4° to 113° F (-20° to 45° C)
Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
Operating altitude: tested up to 10,000 feet (3000 m)
Languages
Language support
English (Australia, Canada, UK, U.S.), Chinese (Simplified, Traditional, Traditional Hong Kong), French (Canada, France), German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish (Mexico, Spain), Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
QuickType keyboard support
English (Australia, Canada, India, UK, U.S.), Chinese - Simplified (Handwriting, Pinyin, Stroke), Chinese - Traditional (Cangjie, Handwriting, Pinyin, Stroke, Sucheng, Zhuyin), French (Canada, France, Switzerland), German (Germany, Switzerland), Italian, Japanese (Kana, Romaji), Korean, Spanish, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cherokee, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Emoji, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, Flemish, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Marathi, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic, Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
QuickType keyboard support with predictive input
English (Australia, Canada, India, UK, U.S.), Chinese (Simplified, Traditional), French (Canada, France, Switzerland), German (Germany, Switzerland), Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Thai
Siri languages
English (Australia, Canada, UK, U.S.), Spanish (Mexico, Spain, U.S.), French (Canada, France, Switzerland), German (Germany, Switzerland), Italian (Italy, Switzerland), Japanese, Korean, Mandarin (Mainland China, Taiwan), Cantonese (Hong Kong)
Dictation languages
English (Australia, Canada, UK, U.S.), Spanish (Mexico, Spain, U.S.), French (Canada, France, Switzerland), German (Germany, Switzerland), Italian (Italy, Switzerland), Japanese, Korean, Mandarin (Mainland China, Taiwan), Cantonese (Hong Kong), Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Malaysian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Swedish, Turkish, Thai, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Definition dictionary support
English, Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Thai, Turkish
Bilingual dictionary support
Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish
Spell check
English (Australia, Canada, UK, U.S.), French, German, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Russian, Swedish, Turkish
KuyaMarkEduard - Tuesday, October 21, 2014 - link
I am just being fair, and just! proving to you, that I am by-all-means, not a Samsung fanboy; but, a true, techno fanboy! It just so happen that Samsung with its Galaxy Note 4, is truly on the upperhand.snake2332 - Thursday, October 23, 2014 - link
Dude, stop posting giant lists of specs. You're coming off as a conspiracy nut anyway, so no one is going to listen to you. Even though I agree that the review feels a little bit Apple-fanboyishy, it's not a totally inaccurate review.KuyaMarkEduard - Tuesday, October 21, 2014 - link
WOW! great decision Beck2050... hopefully I can also have my own Note 4 in the near future...KuyaMarkEduard - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
want to see the fairest and most unbiased review of both? go here:http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_note_4-revi...
and
here http://www.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone_6_plus-review...
KuyaMarkEduard - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
Now, guess what, instead of making the truest, the fairest and the most unbiased reviews posible, you know what?, there webmaster is now getting busy of blocking my comments! Well if you do that, I shall keep on signing-up new account for each and every comment I'm going to post... Would you like that?cj100570 - Monday, October 20, 2014 - link
Wow! The comments on this are a hodgepodge of hillbilly hilarity and backwoods stupidity!DIYEyal - Wednesday, October 22, 2014 - link
Great article, I found a typo:page 3:
"transition to Snapdragon 801 and 805"
Should have been "transition from 801 to 805"
Heartdisease - Wednesday, October 22, 2014 - link
This is not a review. At least not an honest one. It is more a compare contrast the iPhone 6 + with a lot of facts omitted. Anandtech is becoming very very biased to the point I don't think I can trust the information here. The display is equal to the iPhone 6 + ??. Laughable. It has been measured to be the best mobile display ever made, setting new benchmarks in most categories.http://www.displaymate.com/Galaxy_Note4_ShootOut_1...Yeah equal to the iPhone 6 + display sure.
"the Galaxy Note 4 provides a very accurate calibration to the Adobe RGB standard, which is rarely available in consumers displays, and is very useful for high-end digital photography and other advanced imaging applications."
Donkey2008 - Wednesday, October 29, 2014 - link
**Butt hurt Android fan alert**Fidelator - Thursday, October 23, 2014 - link
No video playback loop battery test? Hmm I wonder why you wouldn't show us a test where AMOLED would be the one to ace it... Much like LCDs ace the web browsing battery test due to the white backgrounds, that's a really important part of the review lost there, I'll just assume the note crushed most of the competition (6 Plus) in that test and you didn't want to show that.And this is coming from someone who usually buys phones with LCDs because of the burn in issues, the battery test was unfair
akdj - Saturday, December 6, 2014 - link
I'm not sure of your reality, but I don't know a whole lot of folks enjoying 'video' all day on their phones. Tablets, sure if you're traveling, hanging out, or 'doing your own thing'. But most folks aren't gonna sit around for 20 hours watching moviesPlentry of 'props' were given to AMOLED...& not just with the N4 review. Each iteration and improvement to AMOLED has been recognized.
If all of you folks crying 'bias', and you've found sites that are correct with their measurements, why are you still here? It's ridiculous, this cult following of OEMs or a smartphone OS, it's laughable
These tests are objective. They (each author doing mobile reviews) continue to prelude their measurements with their dissatisfaction with the testing protocols and options available --- but they're what's available TODAY to objectively measure performance
A life spent cheerleading for an operating system on a mobile phone is a life wasted. Buy what works for you and get on with it. This 'comment' section is the funny place these days
Apple's kicking ass right now for a reason. Samsung is building some incredible handsets, as are LG & HTC, Sony and Motorola. Competition is good for everyone and as an owner of a business, I use a Note 4 specifically for business
I own an iPhone 6+ as my daily driver. Still have a Xoom and the original iPad too. If you don't 'get it' yet, you will. They're ALL incredible devices and a couple hundred points here or there when we're discussing measurements in the tens of thousands --- there's hardly a way to discern the way it's going to work for you, what you do and things you enjoy.
If you're an idiot like me and can't decide, get both. Anyone in this comment section beating down the iPhone is wrong. Blaming the author as a biased Apple joker is pretty low, especially as extensive as this review is ...and the amount it cost YOU to read it!
I love my Note 4, owned the first and the third as well. He's right. It's a Big leap forward in design. You guys making up the bullshit battery statistics crack me up too. MOST usage on a phone is done on white or a lightly colored display with dark text for contrast. Text. Call. Surf. Read, edit a photo, video, audio in a DAW...but if BOTH can run movies for ten hours plus, WHO CARES!
No right minded person would spend that kinda time watching blockbusters on a 5.7" display. Games and emails, magazines and media, social networking and docs, spreadsheets or presentations ...NONE are tests AMOLED is going to 'ace'
leonhk1 - Wednesday, October 29, 2014 - link
Hi,I have stock of Brand New Samsung GALAXY Note 4 for sale, sealed in box with warranty.
Price: $500 per unit
MOQ: 1 unit
Bonus : Buy 2 get 1 free.
Serious Buyers should contact for more details
E-mail: [email protected]
Donkey2008 - Wednesday, October 29, 2014 - link
You have to love the 3DMark "onscreen" vs "offscreen" results. As long as any Android doesn't have to actually render images on the screen for the user than it is just as fast as an iPhone. ROLMAO.Announcer97624 - Saturday, November 1, 2014 - link
I don't get the point about battery life trailing behind the IPhone 6 plus? The IPhone 6 plus doesn't have a removable battery so on a 16 hour plane ride the IPhone 6 plus is a liability not an asset compared to the Galaxy Note 4's ability to have a few spare charged batteries. While I have the European Galaxy S5 4G LTE I have a battery wallet with six fresh batteries so I can go for most of a week without charging. My girlfriend has an IPhone 5 and is now going to purchase the Galaxy Note 4 specifically because of the non removable battery on all IPhones.Bikerboy89 - Saturday, November 8, 2014 - link
Wow onscreen GPU performance is laughable. Really bad vs the competition from apple and Nvidia. My LG G Flex gets better onscreen performance in gfxbench and the iPhone 6 gets double or triple Note 4. Pretty pathetic for a flagship device.MattL - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - link
I finally realize why your color accuracy results differ so much from display mate, where you find the iPhone is more color accurate they found the Note 4 more accurate.http://www.displaymate.com/news.html#Color_Accurac...
"Recently some reviewers have published articles contradicting my Absolute Color Accuracy Measurements for the Samsung Galaxy S5. For example, see this recent review in phone Arena. The problem is that these reviewers are not scientists or display experts, and are using canned display calibration software incorrectly in order to test a display, which produces incorrect results and bogus conclusions. Below is a brief semi-technical analysis...
The Color Difference dE used by the Reviewers Incorrectly includes the Luminance: The reviewers are using retail display calibration software products that use a Color Difference measure called dE, which includes a Luminance (Brightness) Error component in addition to the Color Hue and Saturation (Chromaticity) Error component. Using the Color Difference dE is appropriate for setting the display calibration, but dE is Not a measure of Visual Color Accuracy (Hue and Saturation) because it also includes the Luminance (Brightness). The eye sees and interprets brightness and color as two separate visual issues - dE combines them together. So all conclusions based on using dE for Visual Color Accuracy are incorrect.
Our Color Accuracy only includes Color Hue and Saturation: Since the eye sees color and brightness as two separate visual issues I measure and analyze them separately. My published Absolute Color Accuracy measurements and data analysis includes only the Color (Hue and Saturation) Chromaticity Error component Δ(u'v') or d(u'v'), which evaluates just the difference in Hue and Saturation seen by the eye, and is plotted on a 1976 CIE Uniform Chromaticity Color Diagram in all of my articles. This is the correct method for evaluating Visual Color Accuracy (Hue and Saturation). Compare my very precise and detailed Absolute Color Accuracy plots with their crude figure."
Basically you're doing it wrong anandtech
kamhagh - Monday, May 25, 2015 - link
this phone lags on ui and on games like deadtrigger2, don't trust benchmarks! specially when its samsung..... benchamrks are only meaningless numbers!(well useful in some cases)